In the Pink of Night

February 8, 2020 Timothy Price49 Comments

Moon shots

Pterodactyl

Owls

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Swan Dive

February 2, 2020 Timothy Price34 Comments

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Common Merganser

GalleryJanuary 26, 2020January 26, 2020 Timothy Price24 Comments

Trees at Sunset

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 Timothy Price38 Comments

DSCF5335 — Cool clouds over the levee and bosque.

DSCF5362 — Susan’s Tree, Teagan’s Trees, Robin’s Tree, and the unclaimed Tree. There’s an owl in Teagan’s Tree.

DSCF5364 — Teagan’s Tree with an owl perched in it.

Below is a closer shot of the owl in Teagan’s Tree. The owl flying over us as we walked towards it on the ditch bank. The owl landed in a tree behind me along the ditch bank. Two closeups of the owl.

Trees in the Snow

January 16, 2020 Timothy Price61 Comments

Snow has fallen most of the day. After I got home, I went out and photographed the trees on our property that have been claimed.

DSCF5189 — Tiffany’s Tree? I don’t remember if Tiffany claimed this tree or not.

DSCF5193 — Resa’s Tree from a different point of view

DSCF5194 — Susan’s Tree from a different point of view

DSCF5201 — Lyn’s Tree with Resa’s Tree in the back ground

DSCF5202 — Black bamboo bowing low in the snow

PT Pterodactyl

January 6, 2020 Timothy Price23 Comments

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Tiffany of Tiffany Arp-Daleo Contemporary Art, commented that she had not seen a Great Blue Heron in the wild, which reminded me that Laurie and I ran into a pterodactyl (Great Blue Heron) in San Diego one night while we were exploring the Maritime Museum. Tiffany lives in San Diego, and we went to an opening for a show she had a piece in while we were there. It was really fun to meet a fellow blogger and artist, and her husband, and to see one of her paintings in the wilds of the San Diego Art Institute.

Back to the pterodactyl, this heron was perched on the cable to the PT Boat platform. It was hunting fish, and let us watch it for quite some time. Another couple stepped out where we were, and it decided there were either too many people, the fishing wasn’t very good, or both, and took off. I was surprised it let us get so close to it, and watch it for as long as it did. Our herons usually don’t let us get less than a few hundred feet from them before they take off. We were about 15 feet from this one. I used my carry camera with a 35mm lens to photograph it.

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The Twelfth Day of Bosque Christmas

January 5, 2020 Timothy Price23 Comments

Tomorrow is Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas. I wrote a version of the Twelve Days of Christmas using the bosque animals that starts with the 12th day of bosque Christmas. Special guest Suzette Presti was gracious enough to do the vocals. Enjoy.

The Twelfth Day of Bosque Christmas
Lyrics by Timothy Price
Vocals: Suzette Presti
Arrangement: Timothy Price
Guitar, bass, percussion: Timothy Price

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Twelve coyotes crooning
Eleven flickers flitting
Ten finches feeding
Nine seagulls sailing
Eight badgers burrowing
Seven cats a purring
Six crows a cawing
Five beaver slaps
Four geese honking
Three cranes in flight
Two owls to hoot and
A pterodactyl in the Tangle-Heart Tree.

Two Owls, A Pterodactyl in the Tangle-Heart Tree

January 4, 2020 Timothy Price24 Comments

0A6A8003 — Pterodactyl (Great Blue Heron) perched on the Tangle-Heart Tree.

While I was out in the bosque at sunset, I saw two owls in a cottonwood, and a pterodactyl (Great Blue Heron) in the Tangle-Heart Tree. I also photographed cranes against a colored sky, and two ducks in the dark.

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0A6A8016 — Great Horned Owl on a branch above the first owl.

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0A6A8039 — Female Mallard. Mrs. Duck in the dark.

Birds of the Day

January 3, 2020 Timothy Price23 Comments

0A6A7921 — Half moon, Canadian Geese, Sandhill Cranes, Seagull, Great Blue Heron, Crow

Birds that flew overhead when I walked out to the river and back this afternoon.

Cold & Cranes

December 29, 2019 Timothy Price36 Comments

The temperature never rose above freezing today. I walked out to Beaver Point right before sunset, and a group of cranes were hanging out in the Rio Grande, wading around fluffed up to keep warm. There was a lone Canadian goose hanging with the cranes, and a duck floated by and then took off.

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