Spunk Art reflecting
Loki
Spunk
Sunset
And Yet Another Sunrise and Sunset
Tag: birds
On The Fly
Harry
Sunrise @ Beaver Point
Sunrise @ The Beach
Flycatcher on a plateau
Sunrise from an island north of The Beach.
The Rio Grande is slowly drying up. I was able to wade across the shallow point above and walk out onto an island north of the beach.
I spotted a Spotted Sandpiper
Snowy Egret flew by
Tres Globos Amigos
Wildflower
Loki on the fly
Jake outdoors
Jake indoors
Cheez Please! Who goes there?
Veterans Honor
Spunk having a cat nap
Sunset
New perspective from another island that became available.
Sharks splashing in the shallows
Dusk
Between A Rock And A Hard Cat
Blue Moon at dawn
Sunrise
While I was standing in the river shooting the sunrise, Jaws started swimming towards me.
Harry, the Hairy Woodpecker, pecking on a cottonwood
Mama Owl at sunrise
Spunk noticed there was a lot of orange in the floral arrangement and added his tail.
“Ahem! Pesky Paparazzo, cheez is also orange!”
“That’s more like it!”
Norte Pond has become Notre trou de boue
Neil Diamond produces a cracklin’ rose
Sunset
Spunk’s tail between a rock and a hard cat.
Post sunset colors
Silver
Daddy Owl at dusk
Dusk
With A Little Help From His Friends
Sasha trying to wake up at dawn
Mama Owl was giving me the tail while feeding The Lone Owlet this morning.
Jetties in the glow of the almost rising sun
A dragon over Resa’s Wolf Tree
Spunk and Jake
Snapping turtle on the irrigation ditch bank
When Jake and I went out for our afternoon walk, my neighbor, Sara, and a cyclist were pondering the snapping turtle on the irrigation ditch bank, headed away from the Clearwater ditch and river. Sara got an old horse feed bag, we got the snapping turtle in the sack, and I carried him to the river.
He was looking very dry, but still had a lot of snap in him.
He was still upset over being bagged and carried to the river, so he gave me a menacing look.
Sunset
After he got into the river, he stretched out and soaked under sunset clouds.
Jake watching the turtle soak in the shallows.
The turtles view of the sunset
Spunk
A Touch Of Pink
Mama Owl and the Lone Owlet at dawn. I could not find the Lone Owlet in the tree this evening.
Black-headed Grosbeak
Coyotes
Say’s Phoebe
Turtle Tuesday
Cloudy Dawn
We got half an inch of rain yesterday and another quarter inch of rain this afternoon.
Mudback of Notre Pond enjoying the rise in the pond water from the rain.
Why did the turtle cross the levee?
This morning’s Spunk Art: “Tail In A Box!”
Turkey Vultures
I think the rain washed a lot of the fuzz off of the Lone Owlet.
Sunset after the rain
Three Doves And A Grosbeak
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?
For The Birds
The Lone Owlet at Dawn
Black Phoebe on a fire hydrant bollard at dawn
The river was down again this morning. Almost sunrise.
White-crowned Sparrow
Looking up a cottonwood that’s full of birds I could hear, but not see.
Sunrise and South Beach
Wilson’s Warbler
A pair of White-brested Nuthatch’s
Merlin says this is an Eastern Bluebird.
The Lone Owlet nd sunset
Sunset
Dusk
Hepatic Tanager at dusk
Let Them Eat Squirrel
5:45 AM
Looked like Mama Owl had a squirrel she was feeding to The Lone Owlet
Turtles at Dawn
Ducks at Dawn
Dawn
Towers at Dawn
Mudback of Notre Pond
Curious coyote pup
Tired-looking coyote mom
Settling in to sleep after a good squirrel breakfast
Pre-sunset
Black Pheobe catching flies at sunset
The Lone Owlet at sunset
Nice pink at sunset
Ducks at dusk
Dusk
Can you find Jupiter and Venus?
Jupiter and four moons
Jupiter and Venus are easier to see in the above photo.
Grounded
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.
Off Center & Not Even 