Another Frontera Audubon warbler-Black-throated Green

This Black-throated Green Warbler came in with several other warblers to bath in their water feature. SeEtta

American Redstart at Frontera Audubon Center

In addition to the Zone-tailed Hawk, there were some nice warblers wintering at Frontera Audubon Center in Weslaco,TX including this female ...

Zone-tailed Hawk, down for a drink--appears there was just one hawk

These are photos I got of the juvenile Zone-tailed Hawk that I spotted at a pond day before yesterday. It was there to drink water--it dran...

Zone-tailed Hawk, ?? more likely the same juvenile

[post note, 12/30: as noted in next post I now believe there has only been one Zone-tailed Hawk, a juvenile] As I noted in an earlier post,...

Juv. Zone-tailed Hawk: interesting photos

The top pic gives a good view of the undertail feathers that in juvenile Zone-tailed Hawks is whitish with narrow black bands. The middle p...

Juvenile Zone-tailed Hawk

I found this juvenile Zone-tailed Hawk this morning while doing the Weslaco,TX Christmas Bird Count. This neotropical hawk is a regular vis...

Guatemalan Leafwing, yet another tropical visitor

While I was focused on getting good photos of the Pavon Emperor butterfly yesterday, there was another butterfly feeding next to it. As I h...

Angled Leafwing, another tropical butterfly

Another tropical butterfly that strays into So Texas, this Angled Leafwing's range is from northern So. America north through Mexico acc...

Pavon Emperor, other views

I thought this close up view of the wing of this male Pavon Emperor showed off it's iridescence. And the photo below demonstrates the i...

Pavon Emperor butterfly again today

Having been told by some of the experienced butterflyers that the forecast sun today would bring more great butterfly action I returned to t...

Pavon Emperor butterfly, another view

This gives a nice ventral view of this rare visiting butterfly. In this one it's proboscis is rolled back up. Interestingly there are ...

Pavon Emperor, rare tropical butterfly

I was very fortunate today to visit the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Tx when a rare tropical butterfly was being seen. I never hea...

Lapland Longspurs in west Texas

(Note: I have delayed posting as I have traveled by car to So Texas and I don't like to post my absence until the people who will stay i...

White and dark geese

There are hundreds of both white geese (Snow and Ross's) that have been added to the thousands of dark geese (primarily Canada) in Puebl...

Handsome Prairie Falcon

This is one of two Prairie Falcons I found today in Otero County, Colorado. SeEtta

In memory of the Sandy Hook tragedy

I photographed this Bald Eagle in Otero County, Colorado this afternoon as I was listening to reports on the radio of the Sandy Hook tragedy...

Swans, so graceful in flight

These are photos from yesterday afternoon when the Tundra Swans were disturbed by a greedy photographer--they were not at the pond today and...

Swans flushed from pond by inconsiderate photographer

I drove down MacKenzie Ave in mid-afternoon as I wanted to check to see if any more swans had been added. I spotted the birds taking off fr...

Tundra Swans added two more today

This morning I stopped across the road from the Valco Ponds where the Tundra Swans were. Due to warm temps and chinook (snow and ice eating...

Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk

In addition to the Tundra Swans, I was able to finally get a reasonably good pic of a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk I have been seeing around...

Tundra Swan close-up and stretching photos

The close-up photo above shows the field marks for Tundra Swan nicely including the small amount of yellow lores that many of these swans sh...

Tundra Swans in Canon City, more photos

Here are some closer photos of 7 of the swans. I was hiding behind vegetation and the group all swam closer so I got some closer pics inclu...

8 swans a swimmin

I found this group of Tundra Swans this morning in Canon City,CO. They reminded me of the song "8 Days of Christmas". Click on p...

Black Phoebe, a contrast in snow

Today I found a 1st winter Black Phoebe on the Canon City Riverwalk. It's predominately black plumage contrasts nicely with the several...

Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice video

Gorgeous videography from USGS provides a different view of these large sea critters that are such caring mothers. SeEtta

Ladder-backed Woodpecker moved to decidous trees

Yesterday morning I returned to the Canon City Riverwalk to see if the interesting birds from the day before were still around. I did not l...

And a Townsend's Solitaire also on Canon City Riverwalk today

This Townsend's Solitaire was in between the Ladder-backed Woodpecker and the two White-throated Sparrows on the Canon City Riverwalk th...

Two White-throated Sparrows on Canon City Riverwalk

I also found two White-throated Sparrows on the Canon City Riverwalk this morning. Interestingly I saw the first only about 30 feet from wh...