A quick trip to the deep South, September 2017. Santa Fe to Carlsbad Caverns.

I've been putting off visiting Carlsbad Caverns for 42 years, so decided its time!

 Ospreys are on the move too! Clines Corners 9/17.

 Cool roadside art! N. of Roswell, 9/17.

 A Wilson's warbler stops in Roswell on way to the tropics, 9/17.

Sunrise on the plains(Llano Estacado), from my campsite, N. of White's City, 9/18. About 400 miles south of Santa Fe.

June-July sightings.

 Lewis' woodpecker at nest hole, 6/30.

First Rufous hummer of the year at my feeder, 7/3.

Various sightings June-July 2017, trying to keep up.

 Black-crowned night heron 6/27. Coyote Cr. beaver dam.

 Yellow-breasted Chat 6/27.

 Warbling vireo singing on nest 6/28.

Bewick's wren 6/28.

Fast and Furious June. Williamson's sapsucker pair at nest hole.

 Male Williamson's with a beak-full (of ?).

Female blending in, 6/28.

Nest-hole in dead aspen.

American Dipper on nest. June 2017

 American dipper on nest, 6/26.

Nest location.

Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, July 2016.

 Map of Anglesey, with Holyhead Island and South Stack off the west coast, and Langefni in the center. Where I'm headed to see Charles Tunnicliffe's bird studies.

 Typical seacoast strata at Holyhead.

 An unknown bird's nest. Anyone know?

 Bronze Age(?) settlement, Holyhead.

Penros Feilw Standing Stones, with Holyhead Mtn, 7/12. Possible burial site.

South Stack Seabird colony, Holyhead, Wales, July 2016

 Guillemots on a ledge, 7/12.

 Razorbills.

Only a few Atlantic Puffins left, post breeding season.

 Mostly Guillemots on one section of cliff, South Stack. The sound so earthy, it seemed unearthly!

 Razorbill in flight.

Guillemot, Puffin, and Razorbill in underwater flight, painted by Philip Snow at the South Stack
RSPB Visitors Center.