Trip to Point Reyes.

 Elephant Mtn.

 White-tailed Kite.

 Where I lived back in the late '70s.

 Limantaur.

A California interlude

 South Fork Gallinas Creek, San Rafael.

 Black-necked Stilt.

 Kayaking the lower creek, where I saw a large bat ray in the shallows.

Yellow-rumped warbler in eucalyptus.

October's end and early November, Cottonwoods

 Taos.

 County line.

 Taos Mountain.

 Canyon Rd., Santa Fe.

 Rinconada.

Embudo.

Taos, Rio Grande, cottonwoods, and a Bighorn ram. October

 El Salto.

 Taos Junction.

 Pilar.

 Rinconada.

Bighorn on the road.

Monte Vista and Alamosa, CO. October

 The cottonwoods were in their full glory, Oct. 12-13.

 The Rio Grande at Alamosa.

 Mount Blanca from MonteVista, NWR.

The Sangre de Cristos from Alamosa.

Aspens, Screech owl, and Scaled quail, Oct. 2014

 An unusual patch of near red aspen.

 A flock of small birds alarm-calling alerted me to find this Screech owl in a juniper, 2 Peaks, Oct. 4

 The owl ignored the small birds and they eventually left.

Scaled quail on Taos mesa.

ASPEN SEASON