Feline Follies

February 18, 2021 Timothy Price33 Comments

Loki shapeshifting

MarbleGlenda

Silly Silver

Glenda reaching out to touch the phone

Sasha on a cold day enjoying warm air blowing on her.

Gwendolyn being a bit intense.

Spunk chilling on a warm countertop.

Lokii: “Leave me be stupid paparazzo!”

A Turn To Gray

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Timothy Price44 Comments

Clouds blowing over the Sandias before sunset.

The sun’s last attempt to shine through the clouds before slipping below the horizon.

Mama Owl and Daddy Owl looking gray back to their favorite spot.

“I’m Silver, not Gray” You’re really quite gray Silver.

Snow Came and Went

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Timothy Price49 Comments

Black and white of snow under dawn’s dark light turns to snow black and white under a dark street light.

Cranes fly into darkness in the sun’s waning light.

Clouds break up over the Rio Grande and the snow-covered Sandias.

Mama Owl and Daddy Owl perched in a different tree.

Crows fly in the final light of dusk.

The pTerodactyl reflects in the darkness.

Bunny Monday

February 15, 2021 Timothy Price52 Comments

Cottontail

Under A Freezing Midday Sun

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 Timothy Price62 Comments

We got about an inch of snow last night, and while the sun tried to peek through the clouds, the temperature never got about 25ºF (-3.9ºC). A couple of walks in the bosque and out on the beaches along the Rio Grande resulted in new birds and some exciting owl news.

Sandias and the Rio Grande from North Beach.

Canadian Geese.

Five Thrushes.

These Thrushes looked really iridescent in the snow on the riverbank under the cold, filtered sun.

Red-Tailed Hawk way off in the distance.

Sparrow up north scavaging in the snow and pebbles.

Red-Tailed Hawk in profile.

This poor calf has lost its herd. It’s all alone and has been sadly mooing for someone to keep it company.

Can you spot the northern mama owl sitting on her eggs?

She didn’t use this nest last year because the raccoons had ransacked it. She is in it again this year. The year before, 2018, she had Virginia in this nest: https://wp.me/p1yQyy-4dG

Thrush

Blondy the blonde porcupine sleeping way up in a cottonwood.

Thrush getting a drink.

The acequia madre

Robin

Snowy Bosque

Mama Owl and Daddy Owl in their usual spot with snow all around.

Happy Valentine’s Day From The Birds

February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Timothy Price39 Comments

The pTerodactyl posed perfectly in the Tangle Heart Tree for Valentine’s Day.

Miss Stripy Sparrow

Mama Owl

Sparky Sparrow

Daddy Owl snoozing at sunrise.

A congregation of cranes at dawn.

Tommee Towhee

Cranes celebrating the frosty sunrise.

The other side of Miss Stripy Sparrow.

A pTerodactyl takeoff.

A silly duck on takeoff.

“¡Hasta la huego you silly goose!”

As a thunderstorm blew in this evening lots of crows were flying all around us.

Ghost Train

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Timothy Price54 Comments

The railroad crossing arms came down about 6:45 am.

I sat there waiting for the train.

And sat there. Cars started backing up from the other direction.

After sitting, waiting about 3 or 4 minutes for the train to go by, the arms started to rise.

The ghost train had gone by and we were free to continue on our way.

¡Nada!

February 11, 2021 Timothy Price33 Comments

Yesterday we had clouds running amok through the skies with our painter scrambling to keep her colors from blowing away with the winds. Today ¡Nada! Not a cloud in the sky. However, our ever clever painter brushed the Sandias with pink, then she threw a spray of ocher that turned into lavender, purples, and blues as it spread from the horizon into the sky.