Tag: goslings

Summer Tanager In Spring

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We were not able to go on a walk until sunset

Wynona stopped by to say hi

Can you find Wynona in the above photo?

Who do you think hold its beak under water the longest? Looks like the far duck won.

Goose family

Can you find Daddy Owl in the above photo?

While I was photographing Daddy Owl, I heard a chirping close by, and there was a Summer Tanager perched right in front of me. I could barely see him in the darkness.

The clearest shot I could get of the owlet in the darkness. I could not find were the out-of-nest owlet was tonight.

Peony

Sasha looking cute in the catio

Doppel standing on the translucent roof in the catio

Gwendolyn

Silver in a state of cator mortis

Mother Goose

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One of the owlets is hanging out outside of the nest

Other owlet is staying in the nest

Mama Owl

One turtle

Another turtle

Two turtles in the mud puddle

Western Tanager

pTerodactyl

Mourning Dove

Mother Goose and her goslings

Father Goose

Lark Sparrow

Chirp, chirp-chrip, chirp-chirp-chirp
Chirp-chrip, chirp-chirp-chirp, chrip-chirp

Sing us a song you’re a Towhee bird
Sing us a song today
We’re all in the mood for a melody
And you have us feeling okay

Crazy Bushtit

Blue Grosbeak love or Not!

Yellow-breasted Chat

Jetty sculpture garden in the Rio Grande

Bullfrog

Female Hepatic Tanager

Owlete after sunrise

Out-of-nest owlet snoozing on the tree trunk

Blue Grosbeak

Out-of-nest owlet snoozing on a large branch at sunset

Turtles have their heads barely out of the water, holding their mouths open, waiting for a meal to come close enough to snatch.

The Sacrifice

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I buried a raccoon pup at dawn
Found him by the steps
Heartless and emptied
Secretly sacrificed
Under half-moon? Rose at two
Such a mystery

With last rites fitting any innocent soul
Tucked in under spadefuls of sandy soil
Laid to rest, secured for eternity
A spark of life lit
Snuffed, sacrificed
So much misery

The poem above was inspired by a poor baby raccoon, gutted and left near our doorstep. I don’t know what killed it, but it seemed very sacrificial. I’m packing several day’s worths of photos into this post because of the possibility that other things will come up, and many of the photos not get posted.

Click on the galleries below to see a slideshow of the photos in their correct aspect ratios.

Grosbeaks, Hummer, and Towhee the Line

I am Wood Duck hear me roar!

Got Your Goose and Goslings with Cormorant

Cooper’s Hawks’ Hanky Panky

Fuzzette, Major Tom Peppers out of the nest with Mona Lisa and Sleeping still in the nest, Mama Owl, Daddy Owl, Daddy Owl, Mama Owl, Daddy Owl