Hello World!

April 20, 2020 Timothy Price36 Comments

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We went out to check on the owls yesterday morning, and one of at least two, but I’m guessing there are three, owlets popped his head up and said “Hello World!” Thus we start another season of “Watching the Owlets Grow.”

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Mallard

April 16, 2020 Timothy Price39 Comments

Mr. & Mrs. Owl

April 12, 2020 Timothy Price52 Comments

0A6A9629 — Mr. & Mrs. Owl sitting in a cottonwood across from their nest.

We walked down to check on the mama owl who’s been sitting in her nest for a little over a month. She and the daddy owl where sitting in a cottonwood across the irrigation ditch from their nest. Mr. Owl would hoot at Mrs. Owl and then she would peep. After he flew, I walked around to the other side of Mrs. Owl, and I could see she had something in the talons of her her left foot, but I could not make out what it was. She finally flew over to the nest and then we could see she had a gopher for her little ones. I expect we’ll start seeing the owlets poking their fuzzy heads up over the edge of the nest to look out at all the people standing on the ditch bank gawking at them in a couple of weeks.

Below is a short video of Mr. Owl hooting at Mrs. with wind and a pesky chainsaw in the background.

You can click on the photos in the group below to see each image enlarged:

0A6A9700 — Mrs. Owl in the nest with her ear tufts blowing in the wind.

Cormorant Cruising

April 11, 2020April 12, 2020 Timothy Price26 Comments

Pear Blossoms

April 1, 2020 Timothy Price43 Comments

010O0985 — Mama Owl still sitting on her eggs.

Abstraction

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Timothy Price26 Comments

010O0652 — Can you find the owl flying and the apparition of a beaver?

Twilight Owl

March 25, 2020 Timothy Price23 Comments

010O0649 — One of the Great Horned Owls flew up to say hello, and bask in the twilight.

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Free Fall

March 23, 2020 Timothy Price26 Comments

010O0348 — Red-Tailed Hawk free falling from a cottonwood.

Woody and the Power Poles

March 18, 2020 Timothy Price26 Comments

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Woody, the Downy Woodpecker, was making a lot of noise hammering away on a power pole.

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010O0252 — Out of the shadows with an insulator blocking the view.

010O0279 — Watching the sunset from a different power pole.

Cranes’ Law

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Timothy Price37 Comments

Cranes’ Law: Cranes will double in number every few minutes from 2 to 4 to 8 and then there will be a crowd of cranes in the shallows.

If you take a left past Holly’s Tangle-Heart Tree, followed by a few hops, a dozen skips and a great big jump, you will be on the west bank of Rio Grande where, especially at sunset, you will see a magical view of the Sandias with the river flowing by in the foreground. In the shallows of the river, this time of year, you will see Sandhill Cranes. There were two cranes in the shallows when made the final jump as the sun slipped behind the horizon. I photographed cranes circling and landing south of me, and the last of the red blaze on the Sandias. I turned to look at what the two carnes were doing and there were four cranes. A few minutes later more cranes flew in, then more flew in until there was a crowd of cranes in standing in front of me in the shallows of the river.