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Category: Rio Grande
Deer at Dusk
White-tailed deer on the Rio Grande at dusk.
A white-tailed deer came out of the bosque on the east side to the Rio Grande to forage on a sandbar. This is the first deer I have seen in the bosque and along the river.
Colorful Crow Highway
Coming in from the north.
The crow highway was in full swing at dusk with thousands of crows flying south over the Rio Grande and bosque.
Heading south.
The Sandias in dusk purple make a beautiful background.
A lone crow taking a break in a cottonwood that stands between the clearwater ditch and the irrigation ditch.
One, Three, Four
Stealth Crane
Cranes flying over the bosque along the Rio Grande.
Gray Day
Sandias mostly covered by clouds
Holly’s Tangle Heart Tree
Shehanne’s Tree
Sun Through Smoke
Just before sunset last night.
A wildfire north of Santa Fe gave us smoking skies last night and this morning.
Setting sun through the smoke last night.
Sun rising through the smoke this morning.
View from Beaver Point.
Three Pterodactyls Together
Three Pterodactyls (Great Blue Herons) together. Not a common sight around here.
Wild Summer Skies
Looking southeast from South Bend
When I was out at Beaver Point just before sunset last night, I could see the clouds were really wild looking to the southeast, and I would get much better photos from the south bend about a quarter-mile downriver. I hightailed it south and along the way heard the owlets peeping in the cottonwoods between 4th of July Point and South Bend, but I could not see them. I got down to South Bend in time for some spectacularly wild clouds with the half-moon hanging behind them. On my way backed I looked for the owlets, but could not find them in the trees. There was still a lot of color in the clouds when I got to the Tangle Heart Tree, but the color had pretty much subsided to the east when I got to Shehanne’s tree on my way back home.
Looking east over the Rio Grande a the Sandias from South Bend.
A half-moon peaking through the Tangle-Heart Tree.
The last of the color looking north from the Tangle Heart Tree. Can you see a face in the clouds?
Shehanne’s Tree in front of a fading eastern sky.
Coyote, Comet, Iron Cross
A coyote sauntering along the levee looks back to check out the paparazzo.
The Neowise comet from 7/20. That was the only clear sky we had last week.
Hummer holding an iron cross over the Rio Grande.
Oh! We’ve been seeing daddy owl, but not mama owl or the owlets.
Cottonwoods Among The Jetties
The Jetties, also called Jetti Jacks, where placed along the river in the 1930s where the bosque has since grown up. The jettise are one of many flood control projects that have been installed along the Rio Grande. When I was young, there were rows of jettis the ran from the Levee to the river about every 1000 feet or so. Most of the jetties have been removed over the past 30 years, but there are some that have been left tangled up in cottonwoods that grew up along the line of jetties.
Off Center & Not Even 