Dawn after the flash flood
Snow Egret caught a fish for breakfast
Another lost sole
Big Gulp
A lost soul, perhaps
The dark line on the opposite bank is the flash flood line, about 6 feet (two meters) above the current natural flow of the river.
Turtle tracks
The moon will be full tomorrow night, but we have not seen it the last few nights because of clouds.
Another Dawn
pTerodactyl tracks
A broken back lying on the riverbed at dawn
Spunk
Not that we are getting a few thunderstorms in the evenings, the runoff turns the water flowing in the Rio Grande the color of chocolate milk. Inspired by the milk chocolate water flowing in the Rio Grande, I wrote and recorded a song of the same name and made it into the above music video.
The river was higher at dawn from runoff from thunderstorms north and west of us. By dusk, most of the water had receded.
Dawn (water). Dusk (mud).
The Snowy Egret that follows us around most mornings
Dawn
Almost sunrise
Dusk
Virgas hung from anemic clouds
Teasing parched earth that begged for rain
Moon rose, hung in the trees
Strawberry Moon forever?
Night heron and Snowiy egret reflected in Rio Grande’s water
It’s dwindling into a stream
Stormclouds blushed at sunset
Embarrassed by their precipitous disfunction
Dawn
“Oh! No! Il Paparazo and his big bazooka, again!
Snowy Egret flyby
Spotted Sandpiper
Doing the Sandpiper Boogie
A mama goose with four goslings
Practicing gosling ballet
“What do you mean, say I look like a dork!”
“Not only do you look like a dork! You look like a dorky duck!”
“Well! I never! Come on, Donald, we don’t have to listen to this lowly teenager insult us!”
“That’s obvious, given they have no ducklings!”
Spotted Tohee
Yellow-breasted Chat
Both owlets are hanging around outside the nest. One low. One high.
Morning bunny
Black Phoebe
Sunset
Black-crowned Night Heron
Venus and the Sliver Moon
Jupiter and four moons
Snowy Egret at Dawn
Wood Duck
This might be a Yellow-breasted Chat
Coyotes on the run
Mama owl and owlet sleeping and sunrise
Guard Hummingbird and sunset
One owlet at sunset
Wynona Beaver hanging out with us at sunset
Can you find Wynona in the above photo?
Can you find six coyotes in the above photo?
Owlets at dusk
Hummingbird at dusk
Dawn
“Loki, it’s lookin’ into your quiet eyes – silent tears
Silent as the night you deserted me…”
“Have you been listening to Golden Earring again, Silver?” “Yeah! What about it, Loki?”
“You’re a creep! You’re a weirdo! What the hell are you doing here singing Golden Earring songs to me?”
Hmmm! What’s this dingle dongle dangling down before me?
GRRrrrrr!
And yet another cheese standoff.
Snowy Egret
Chewed on by a porcupine.
Canadian Geese @ dusk
A Snowy Egret flew by at high speed this morning.
Violet-green Swallows were swarming over the river catching insects. They were also flying close to the water splashing in it as they skimmed the surface. I was not able to get still shots of them splashing.
Mary flew over to the tree with Paul last night. She was really proud of herself this morning perched in the shade with her chest up and out like “See what I did?”
Paul and Mary. Daddy Owl was sitting in a cottonwood in the bosque where he could see both of them in their new tree between the ditches. It will be interesting to see how long it is before they fly into the bosque.
I was going to buy a ultra-wide-angle lens for my Fuji XE-1 that I used to use as a carry camera. But the 10-24mm zoom lens is quite large, which makes it not as desirable to carry when I’m also carrying the Bazooka on a 7D Mark II body, and the 70-200mm zoom lens a 5Ds body. I have been using my iPhone XE for all street photography and wide-angle photos, stitching together panoramas for ultra-wide-angle shots. I finally decided that since an iPhone 12 Mini was the same price as a Fuji 10-24mm lens, I might as well upgrade my iPhone to the iPhone 12 Mini. The 12 Mini is the same form factor as the old iPhone 5, which is my favorite style of iPhone case, and the camera has wide-angle and super-wide-angle. The iPhone 12 Pro has telephoto, also, but I have the Bazooka and the iPhone 12 is bigger than I like.
What’s really nice with the iPhone 12 Mini is the “Portrait” setting works for any abject or critter as you can see in the photos of the kitties and the America Rose above. The “Portrait” setting on my iPhone SE only worked on human faces. When I tried using it on the cats, or anything else, it said “No faces recognized” and would not take a photo. I’m really happy with the camera on the iPhone 12 Mini.
All photos below were shot with the Bazooka 400mm lens on a Canon 7D Mark II body.
Off Center & Not Even 