Tag: great horned owl
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Raising Raptors Update
We have been back to check on most of the raptor nests a couple of times since our last post. Things are changing rapidly. Read more…
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Raising Raptors Redux
A chance encounter with a park visitor leads me to an amazing afternoon of observing an owl nest. Read more…
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A Ribbon of Green in the Desert
If the earth is a mother, then rivers are her veins. ~Amit Kalantri After Bear River, we knew it was time to point the truck eastward and start the long trek home (but with plenty of stops still). We charted a course for Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming where we had camped on previous… Read more…
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Refuges as refuge
For every day of loneliness we endure, we’ll spend a day in communion with the life around us until the loneliness passes away. ~Richard Louv If you have read previous posts on this blog, you know that we are lucky to live in a beautiful wooded setting with abundant wildlife from insects to birds. But… Read more…
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Yellowstone in Feathers
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all— ~Emily Dickinson It has been a busy week, but I finally had a chance to wrap up some images and thoughts about my recent Yellowstone trip. Like every trip out there, this one… Read more…
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The Shadow
I rejoice that there are owls… ~Henry David Thoreau I just returned from a very special place – Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. I came away with several thousand images, mostly of Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes, the “stars” of Bosque. But in the predawn light and in the twilight after… Read more…
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