First visit of Western bluebirds this season, for the record. They clearly came for the water as the air warmed after sunrise. Soon joined by juncos, a titmouse, scrub jays, white wing doves, white-crowned sparrow, house finches, canyon towhees and a spotted towhee. No one seem bothered by the antelope squirrel scarfing juniper berries in …
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This was the best `I could do after scrambling from my living room chair and grabbing my Canon Powershot, then shooting into the sun while also trying to initiate an iPhone audio recording of crying coyotes the cranes apparently stirred up with their age-old trilling from 10,000 feet. At least I can still hear the …
The official state bird might have been visiting this morning just for water but the mission also could have been lizards. He seemed annoyed that Cowboy and I were sitting nearby in the shade. It sounded like he blew us a raspberry. It had me recalling my half-sisters as kids saying “Beep it” when they …
Like a star at night, I spend a moment on the first bird I see in the morning. Today it was a robin sitting in dead piñon as the sun came up. Being a sensible 73-year-old, I dismissed the anthropomorphic tendency to think the bird was doing the same thing as I, observing the glory …
It snowed earlier. Later in the day, this woodpecker wouldn’t budge from my neighbor’s hummingbird feeder. The hummingbird didn’t seem happy.
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