Chew

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Timothy Price52 Comments

Another beautiful dawn

Spunk took the Duluth catalog ad literally

Wild clouds at sunset behind Christine’s tree on the right.

Swan Dive @ 5:00

March 8, 2021 Timothy Price43 Comments

Morning clouds at dawn

Sandhill Crane doing a swan dive @ 5:00. “Banzai!”

Sunset

Ghost Mousies In The Sky

March 6, 2021 Timothy Price53 Comments

Flaming clouds left by the ghost mousies flying by.

Put on your headphones, turn up your sound. Enjoy!

Ghost Mousies In The Sky

Parody lyrics: Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene. Vocals: Timothy Price. Music: Johnny Cash.

Spunk facing off with a mortal mousie.

Blondy & The Owls

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 Timothy Price63 Comments

Blondy feeding on an elm tree by the irrigation ditch.

Above is a 48-second video of Blondy feeding on an elm tree. The video is a little shaky because it is handheld at sunset, and Blondy was backlit. I had to push the exposure two stops to get detail in Blondy. The video gives you an idea of how slow and deliberate porcupines are. Blondy is in some ways like a monkey and other ways like a sloth.

Mama Owl

Daddy Owl

Daddy Owl and Mama Owl

A Turn To Gray

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Timothy Price44 Comments

Clouds blowing over the Sandias before sunset.

The sun’s last attempt to shine through the clouds before slipping below the horizon.

Mama Owl and Daddy Owl looking gray back to their favorite spot.

“I’m Silver, not Gray” You’re really quite gray Silver.

Snow Came and Went

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Timothy Price49 Comments

Black and white of snow under dawn’s dark light turns to snow black and white under a dark street light.

Cranes fly into darkness in the sun’s waning light.

Clouds break up over the Rio Grande and the snow-covered Sandias.

Mama Owl and Daddy Owl perched in a different tree.

Crows fly in the final light of dusk.

The pTerodactyl reflects in the darkness.

Under A Freezing Midday Sun

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 Timothy Price62 Comments

We got about an inch of snow last night, and while the sun tried to peek through the clouds, the temperature never got about 25ºF (-3.9ºC). A couple of walks in the bosque and out on the beaches along the Rio Grande resulted in new birds and some exciting owl news.

Sandias and the Rio Grande from North Beach.

Canadian Geese.

Five Thrushes.

These Thrushes looked really iridescent in the snow on the riverbank under the cold, filtered sun.

Red-Tailed Hawk way off in the distance.

Sparrow up north scavaging in the snow and pebbles.

Red-Tailed Hawk in profile.

This poor calf has lost its herd. It’s all alone and has been sadly mooing for someone to keep it company.

Can you spot the northern mama owl sitting on her eggs?

She didn’t use this nest last year because the raccoons had ransacked it. She is in it again this year. The year before, 2018, she had Virginia in this nest: https://wp.me/p1yQyy-4dG

Thrush

Blondy the blonde porcupine sleeping way up in a cottonwood.

Thrush getting a drink.

The acequia madre

Robin

Snowy Bosque

Mama Owl and Daddy Owl in their usual spot with snow all around.

¡Nada!

February 11, 2021 Timothy Price33 Comments

Yesterday we had clouds running amok through the skies with our painter scrambling to keep her colors from blowing away with the winds. Today ¡Nada! Not a cloud in the sky. However, our ever clever painter brushed the Sandias with pink, then she threw a spray of ocher that turned into lavender, purples, and blues as it spread from the horizon into the sky.