Camp at Caballo Reservoir 1/24-25/13

                                         Caballo dawn

 125 Sandhill cranes flying south. To? A few big flocks pass over. Maybe 800 total.

                                         Crane tracks on mud flats

                                         I only see about 15 pelicans at Caballo

                                         "Low tide" at Caballo, 1/25/13

A couple of nights in the Bootheel

Got to go on a quick sojourn down south to the Peloncillo Range. 

                                   Hard to believe but this butterfly was out flying.1/23/13
                                   We also saw a bat out foraging two nights in a row.

                                         Fresh lion tracks near camp.

Back to the present. January 2013

January 19th on the Rio Grande. The section just above Velarde is frozen over.

 Lone flyfisherman with the river to himself.

 Counting ducks at County line.

 Fresh otter tracks on an ice shelf, at Embudo.

Dave Rigsby's bridge, Embudo.

Through the Brooks Range north, May 2012

                                         In the Brooks Range

                                         Dall ewe and lamb

                                         Down to the North Slope

Driving the Haul Rd north, Fairbanks to Deadhorse.

                                                                  True north

                                                                 2nd spring                                                                                                              

                                                            Spruce grouse sign

                                                                   Himself

                                                                 Brooks Range

To Alaska for Wildlife Conservation Society job, May 2012

Flying into Fairbanks.

Moose arch, Fairbanks

At the University of Alaska Museum

May 1st, 2012, Spring in Taos

 Arroyo Seco spring, view of El Salto.

 Fraser Creek runoff.

 Long Canyon snows.

American marten captured on camera, Long Canyon.

Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle, into NM

 My favorite Oklahoma bird, the Scissor-tailed flycatcher.

 The Canadian River.

 Tucumcari(?)

April 2012 cross-country.

 Another Missouri Box turtle crossing the road.

Another four-leaf clover.

More catchup from last year

 A painting I saw through a gallery window in Stonington, Maine.

A swamp in N. Carolina.

Missouri April 2012

Driving across Missouri last spring I saw my first Black racer in a plowed corn field, beautiful.

I spent a lot of time stopping to help box turtles across the roads. Really sad to see all the mortality's.

Its a long way across these roads for a slow tortoise.

I found many Cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) in the stream beds with their unusual markings.

New York State April 2012

We came across this large snapping turtle in the old canal, eating duckweed! I had always thought that snappers were strictly meat/fish/eaters. This one was gulping down big mouthfuls of floating duckweed as we watched.

This man-made pond was the most enchanting pond I've seen in a long time. It was full of mating toads.

There were also many newts, which I haven't seen for many years.

Mating toads on top of egg masses.

Also some pickerel(?) frogs.