
Twilight



Can you find the owl?

Owl and Jupiter

Dawn


Glenda


Doppel

Sunset

Ash-throated Flycatcher at sunrise

Lone Owlet at sunrise



Watching a Cooper’s Hawk fly into the tree and start chattering a the owlet

Daddy flew in right after the Cooper’s Hawk

He had a gopher for Mama and Lone Owlet

Mama Owl giving the pesky paparazzo mad dogs


A Killdeer at Beaver Point












Three doves and a Grosbeak







Then I saw another Killdeer at The Beach






Eastern Bluebird


Say’s Phoebe



Eastern Bluebird

Silver

Guard hummingbird

Loki

Lone Owlet at sunset

Dusk

Beaver at dusk

Can you find the beaver in the above photo?


Dawn
Update on the orphan owlet from the raptor rehabilitor:
“The owlet is eating like a pig and doing well. He’s spending days outside in the GHOW enclosure with foster dad GHOW Royal to ensure he knows he’s a GHOW, and enjoy fresh air and nature sounds. For now, when he’s in the outdoor enclosure in the daytime, he’s in a large sheltered nestbox with wooden slats so he can see and hear Royal but will stay secure in the nestbox while he’s still smaller. I’m bringing him in at night because it’s still a bit cool overnight here and he doesn’t have siblings to snuggle with for warmth. Eventually he’ll be staying in the outdoor enclosure with Royal 24/7 and he’ll have room to learn/ practice flying.”
If you would like to donate to Wildlife Rescue, Inc. in New Mexico to help the orphaned owlet and other rescued wildlife, go to https://wildliferescuenm.org/donate-give/.

Mama Owl waiting for Daddy Owl to bring breakfast.

House Finches in silhouette


House Finches


The Mudback of Notre Pond holding his head up

Another turtle checking things out

Still Dawn

Ducks in the mist



Tracks on the beach. The trail is from a beaver’s tail dragging in the sand.

Sunrise

Mudback of Notre Pond changed position after sunrise

Blue Grosbeak

The Lone Owlet looking east after sunrise

Laurie caught El Vato Kitty sitting with the silver-haired Sasquatch

Sunset


The Lone Owlet at dusk


The moon, Jupiter and Venus were line up nicely tonight.

The smaller owl was out of the tree on the ditchbank when Jake and I went on our early morning walk. Three coyotes were eyeing the owlet. I chased off the coyotes, ran home with Jake, grabbed a box, ran back, put the owl in the box, took it home, put it in the library, covered it and shut the door so the cats wouldn’t bother it. Luckily, Daddy Owl did not attack me, and Mama Owl was nowhere to be seen. I took the owlet to Animal Rescue in Albuquerque.

Daddy Owl watching th grounded owlet.

Owlet in the box
Sunrise
Lesser Goldfinch












The three coyotes were playing on the ditch bank across the ditch from the owlet’s tree when Jake and I resumed our walk.

Sunset

The lone owlet



Venus made a brief appearance through the clouds.


Jupiter and the crescent moon.

Dawn

“Oh! No! Il Paparazo and his big bazooka, again!




















Snowy Egret flyby


Spotted Sandpiper
Doing the Sandpiper Boogie



A mama goose with four goslings


Practicing gosling ballet

“What do you mean, say I look like a dork!”

“Not only do you look like a dork! You look like a dorky duck!”

“Well! I never! Come on, Donald, we don’t have to listen to this lowly teenager insult us!”

“That’s obvious, given they have no ducklings!”

Spotted Tohee

Yellow-breasted Chat


Both owlets are hanging around outside the nest. One low. One high.



Morning bunny

Black Phoebe


Sunset

Black-crowned Night Heron

Venus and the Sliver Moon


Jupiter and four moons


No much left of this iceberg floating down the Rio Grande at dawn.






Female Blue Grosbeak

Yertle the Turtle hanging out in a mud puddle in the almost-dry, clearwater ditch.


Owlet @ Dawn


What looks like either a flycatcher or western bluebird hanging out above Mama Owl. I think it figured it’s less likely to become dinner above Mama than below Mama.

The mystery bird perched above Mama Owl

Mama Owl

Owlet @ Dusk

Jupiter with two of its moons

Snowy Egret at Dawn



Wood Duck


This might be a Yellow-breasted Chat

Coyotes on the run

Mama owl and owlet sleeping and sunrise



Guard Hummingbird and sunset

One owlet at sunset

Wynona Beaver hanging out with us at sunset

Can you find Wynona in the above photo?

Can you find six coyotes in the above photo?

Owlets at dusk



Hummingbird at dusk