Heritage Hopper

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Timothy Price36 Comments

A tiny grasshopper on Heritage.

Pearl Crescents Courting

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Timothy Price58 Comments

“Hi there big little boy!”

Romance is in the air and on the Shasta Daisies, as the Pearl Cresent Butterflies have been courting with standoffs and flurries of fluttery foolery in the flowers. I assume the smaller butterflies are the males.

“This is my good side.”

“Well? Are you just going to stand there and gawk at me?”

Lady Cresent in waiting.

She didn’t have to wait long.

The male paused to savor the view of Lady Crescent’s beautiful butterfly behind.

An advance.

Fluttery butterfly foolery in the flower.

I found these two had snuck off into the weeds to do the butterfly bad thing.

This is what they call the “Butterly Position”.

Lunar Eclipse 7/4/2020

July 4, 2020July 5, 2020 Timothy Price31 Comments

The peak of the eclipse at 10:30 pm MDT.

There was a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse tonight, July 4, 2020. The moon was so bright, I couldn’t see any changes to it besides the clouds drifting by adding a little drama to the scene. It was rather anticlimactic, but I photographed in anyway.

The tracker on my screen showed the coverage at the peak on the eclipse.

A cloud drifting by at 10:07 pm gave an eclipse look to the moon.

9:40 pm clouds striping across the moon.

9:45 pm cloud eclipse.

Viceroy on the Rio Grande

July 3, 2020 Timothy Price47 Comments

A Viceroy Butterfly was hanging out along the edge of the Rio Grande this morning. He had a chunk out of his wing, but he fluttered about like nothing was wrong.

The Passenger

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 Timothy Price28 Comments

I had a tiny grasshopper rode with me today.

Silver Sleeping

July 1, 2020 Timothy Price43 Comments

Silver’s tail almost crept away from him while he was sleeping.

His tail slipped back into place as Spunk entered the scene.

Silver was not sure what Spunk was up to.

Silver seemed to think it was safe to get more shuteye once Spunk settled in.

Silver’s not sure of Loki’s intentions.

Greetings From Little Owl

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Timothy Price46 Comments

One the branch staring me down.

We haven’t seen the little owls for a couple of weeks. When the smoke descended upon us the owls seemed to say “¡Hasta la vista! Babies!” and disappeared. Over the past week, we had heard them eeping, but we couldn’t find them in the trees. Various people mentioned hearing the owlets and seeing them fly into the bosque, but sightings, where the owlets are perched on a branch eeping and watching people, had become scarce.

Last night when I was walking to 4th of July Point at sunset, I heard eeping, and I found this little owl on a branch behind the Tangle Heart Tree. Laurie walked up and we could hear the other owlet eeping deeper in the bosque south of the Tangle Heart Tree, but I couldn’t find it.

Taking a closer look at the pesky paparazzo.