Blue Grosbeak and the Cresent Moon
A Swainson’s Hawk was having lunch on a light pole in a Walmart parking lot.
Noon
Tiny toadlets on the riverbed at sunset
Speaking being out to lunch, I’m going to take a long lunch break from blogging. I’m tired, and I have been having so much trouble with WordPress over the past few months, I can’t deal with it anymore, and I have decided I really need to take a break.
Sunset
Venus above Jupiter
Doppel in the dark
Dawn
Update on the orphan owlet from the raptor rehabilitor:
“The owlet is eating like a pig and doing well. He’s spending days outside in the GHOW enclosure with foster dad GHOW Royal to ensure he knows he’s a GHOW, and enjoy fresh air and nature sounds. For now, when he’s in the outdoor enclosure in the daytime, he’s in a large sheltered nestbox with wooden slats so he can see and hear Royal but will stay secure in the nestbox while he’s still smaller. I’m bringing him in at night because it’s still a bit cool overnight here and he doesn’t have siblings to snuggle with for warmth. Eventually he’ll be staying in the outdoor enclosure with Royal 24/7 and he’ll have room to learn/ practice flying.”
If you would like to donate to Wildlife Rescue, Inc. in New Mexico to help the orphaned owlet and other rescued wildlife, go to https://wildliferescuenm.org/donate-give/.
Mama Owl waiting for Daddy Owl to bring breakfast.
House Finches in silhouette
House Finches
The Mudback of Notre Pond holding his head up
Another turtle checking things out
Still Dawn
Ducks in the mist
Tracks on the beach. The trail is from a beaver’s tail dragging in the sand.
Sunrise
Mudback of Notre Pond changed position after sunrise
Blue Grosbeak
The Lone Owlet looking east after sunrise
Laurie caught El Vato Kitty sitting with the silver-haired Sasquatch
Sunset
The Lone Owlet at dusk
The moon, Jupiter and Venus were line up nicely tonight.
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.
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
Goosey Dawn
Crow
Beavers have been taking care of business dragging willows to the river.
Coyote: “Is that Wynona taking care of beaver business I spy?”
Wynona taking care of beaver business
Wynona: “Take that stupid coyote and paparazzo!”
Handsome Coyote
Vato was hanging out on the fridge when I dropped by to pick up Jake
Spunk
Silver
No clouds dusk
Venus
Coyotes
Loki
Venus again
Sunrise
Half of what it used to be
Sunset
Not much pink tonight
Jupiter, Moon and Stars
Spunk Art
Venus rising
Spunk
Loki
Gwendolyn and Glenda
Dusk
Pre-dawn with Venus on the right.
Pre-dawn with Venus barely visible above the Sandias.
Dawn breaking, showing the fog rising off the river.
Daddy Owl hooting at the orange dawn.
Foggy Bottom
Left to right: Glenda, Loki, Gwendolyn. Silver in the back.
Sunset
Dawn is a little darker every morning. Soon it will be nighttime, awaiting dawn. Venus shines on the right, above the clouds.
Clouds consumed the Sandias at Dawn
Loki
It’s been wet enough to get some fungus among us!
¡Quatro Amigos!
Silver
Cottonwoods starting to change
Glenda
A dark and cloudy dawn persisted throughout the day.
Spunk: “I believe ‘il fungo tra noi è il paprazzo!'”
Off Center & Not Even 