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Burrowing Owl

Since I am not allowed to be with my husband while he has his dialysis, and he has it at 5 am three days a week, what I do is toss the sleeping bag in the back seat and have a nice nap in the car while he dialysizes. Usually I wake up when it [...]

Looking forward with wildlife

Spring is here and even brought a little rain with her this week, along with some of our old migrant pals. The pyrrhuloxia is a very infrequent visitor who causes a lot of excitement when he drops by. Hubby came running to the kitchen and took several photos that turned out quite nicely in spite [...]

Do you think I’ve gone too far?

by @ Tuesday, March 9th, 2010. Tags: , , ,
Filed under bird and wildlife watching

This must somehow be a very fortunate day. Standing in the kitchen I glanced out the window and thought, “Who’s dog is that?” Looked a little harder. Ah. God’s dog. The young coyote trotted casually up the long side of the property, as I silently tugged at my hubby’s sleeve to get him to look [...]

Spring has sprung

Indeed, spring has sprung. I offer as evidence the ground squirrel we saw on the ranch yesterday. They are so small and so fast that to get a photo to share with you I’m going to have to spend a sunny day lurking near a burrow. This is also probably true about getting a photo [...]

Buffalos and Finches and Doves and the Lottery

The hubby has been busy this week getting some great photos like this one of a house finch. What I love about this is if you look, you can see how those streaky breast feathers blend right in with the brushy mess on the ground to provide the perfect camoflage. He also got our best [...]

New bird!

by @ Wednesday, January 27th, 2010. Tags: , ,
Filed under Photography, bird and wildlife watching

This lovely little Canyon Towhee dropped by for lunch today.  He was picking up pine nuts under the evergreen outside the kitchen window.  Hubby got a great picture of him!  The Canyon Towhee is a new bird for us!  Whee! Summer

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