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Spring prepares to!

Well, our New Mexico weather is following its usual pattern. As seems to be the case most places, the seasons change quite definitely on or about the first of the month – not three weeks later, as per the bureaucratic (or fascist) calendar. And you can start sensing the onslaught of the seasonal [...]

Bald eagle in the bosque!

Yes, as I was walking today on the path along the east side of the clear ditch north of the Río Grande Nature Center about half a mile south of Montaño, at 4:53 PM I saw a bald eagle fly in front of me, maybe 50-100 feet up and perhaps 100 yards off. Big dark [...]

The cranes came

Again.

I’m sitting here at the dining room table doing email and trying not to get sucked in for a long and joyless session of Net-surfing. The back door’s open to allow very pleasant (and much-needed) fresh air in. It’s not a warm day but neither is it particularly cool.

Anyway, a little while ago, about [...]

Cranes in the sunset!

No, it’s not some kind of industrial art photograph. Although it’d make a cool one.

A little while back – around 4:20 PM – I took a break from Annja’s latest exploits and went out to bring the Christmas boxes in from the shed. A couple weeks ago I strung some colored lights on the mantel [...]

Cranes in Effect!

Today, after much too long an absence, Emma Dog and I went for a walk along the clear ditch by the Rio Grande Nature Center. It was one of those golden-velvet afternoons that make Fall my favorite season of the year.

Coming out of the Center proper, or up the bike path from the south, [...]

Cool birds

Emma and I took our (mostly) daily walk on the ditch that runs along the east side of the Rio Grande Nature Center preserve. In the southeast corner, the southern end of the field marked off by stands of trees was flooded and marshy. Along with the inevitable mallards and huge Canada geese, [...]