Mostly blue skies tonight a little after 5:00 at pm.
Cranes catnapping a little after 5:00 pm.
Mia’s tree under a wild sky at five till five.
A Pterodactyl catnapping with ducks at ten till five.
Marina’s Incognito Tree just before sunset.
Resa’s tree in the snow yesterday around noon.
Dale’s Peach Tree in daylight under blue skies the day before yesterday.
6:30 AM
From clear blue skies yesterday to cloudy skies with snow and rain today.
5:00 PM
Crows bathing in the Rio Grande in the late afternoon.
Video of the crows bathing.
The Pterodactyl was sunbathing in a cottonwood and took a flight when he got tired of the paparazzo photographing him. He landed on another cottonwood across the ditch. No sooner than he settled in, another Pterodactyl flew in a took his place.
What’s that?
Incoming
Ready
Get Set
New Pterodactyl
Last night’s sunset from Beaver Point. I didn’t get home until dark tonight, but we had clear skies.
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.
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.
Mia’s Tree
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.
Thunderheads are building up, rolling in and raining on us almost every evening.
Shark cloud
Reakirt’s Blue (Echinargus isola) is a tiny butterfly with a wingspan of only 3/4 of an inch (19mm). This one distracted me while I was walking in the bosque this morning.
Off Center & Not Even 