Taking Flight — Image by kenne
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Taking Flight 2 comments
Puerto Peñasco, Mexico — Beach Scenes 3 comments
The Shore of Puerto Peñasco, Mexico — Images by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Osprey (Fish Eagle) 4 comments
Osprey (Fish Eagle) — Images by kenne
When in the Puerto Peñasco, Sonora area last week we visited a small bay/marshland about twenty-five miles east and only a couple of miles from where we were staying. This area has been set aside as a nature preserve and is a nesting area for the Osprey (Fish Eagle). On our visit we were able to see one, not just printed on a sign, as you can see, this guy was perched on the sign — “Showtime!”
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Gila Woodpecker 6 comments
A medium size woodpecker, the Gila Woodpecker often makes his/her home in saguaro cactus — Image by kenne
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Our Visitors Are Still Coming Through Tucson 2 comments
The turkey vulture numbers are fewer each day, but the continue migrating to places north. This mornings count was 52. — Images by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Coopers Hawk 4 comments
Coopers Hawk As Seen On A Photography Walk This Morning — Image by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Just Like The White-Winged Dove 2 comments
One of the signs of spring in the Sonoran Desert is the return of the white-winged doves. — Image by kenne
edge of seventeen
by Stevie Nicks
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Who who who
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothin’ else mattered
He was no more than a baby then
Well he seemed broken hearted
Something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him all alone
On the edge of seventeen
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
I went today maybe I will go again
Tomorrow
And the music there it was hauntingly
Familiar
And I see you doing
What I try to do for me
With the words from a poet
And the voice from a choir
And a melody nothing else mattered
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colors
But the sea
Does not change
And so with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Well then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall yeah yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
Oh I went searchin’ for an answer,
Up the stairs and down the hall
Not to find an answer
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird singing
Come away come away
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Well I hear you in the morning
And I hear you
At nightfall
Sometime to be near you
Is to be unable to hear you
My love
I’m a few years older than you
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Oh baby oh said oh
(Click here to listen to “edge of seventeen”)
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Capturing The Moment — Two Ravens 8 comments
“Two Ravens” — Images by kenne
Hugnin and Munin
Thoughts look to the future
Memories to the past
Both are ravens
And neither will last
Both will pluck out your eyes
Should you ever forget
Both are ravens
And neither relent
Their terror is matched
By only their might and their splendor
Both are ravens
Who always return to their sender
Without thought a fool
Memories loss is un-birth
Both are ravens
And each may fall to the earth
One is truth
And one is fiction
Both are ravens
Neither offer protection
Thought is harsh
And memory kind
Both are ravens
And neither are mine
Rob W. Hansen
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Capturing The Moment — Female Phainopepla 7 comments
Female Phainopepla — Image by kenne
Phainopepla
Perched high on the mesquite
Sky territory.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — The Sanderling 9 comments
By the beach border, where the breeze
Comes freighted from the briny seas,
By sandy bar and weedy rock,
I frequent meet thy roving flock;
Now hovering o’er the bending sedge,
Now gather’d at the ocean edge;
Probing the sands for shrimps and shells,
Or worms marine in hidden cells,
A restless and inconstant band,
Forever flitting o’er the sand.
Sandpiper!—haunting every shore
Where’er the waves of ocean roar;
Old voyagers that roam the deep
Tell that your dusky pinions sweep
O’er the remotest islands set
In ocean’s emerald coronet.
Far where Siberian coasts extend,
Far where Australian borders trend,
Far up the icy Labrador,
Far where the Mexic billows pour,
Are seen thy pinions, roving bird !
Thy melancholy note is heard.
from THE LITTLE BEACH SANDERLING, by Isaac McLellan. Poems of the Rod and Gun. New York: Henry Thorpe, 1886
Sanderlings — Images by kenne
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It’s A Bird, It’s A Verdin, No It’s A Kinglet! 5 comments
Tosh Lawrence Conducting a Training Session In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
Last week I was videoing and taking photos of one of the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN), Tosh Lawrence, conducting a nature walk training session for new and experienced naturalists. Tosh shared a lot of her excellent teaching techniques, and one point in the riparian area by the dam, we spotted a small bird jumping around among brush on the ground. At the time, I had the video camera going and the following short clip was what I was able to capture. Note the back and forth as to what kind of bird we were watch. Our expert birder friends have got to love it, but remember, some of us are still learning.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Hepatic Tanager 3 comments
Hepatic Tanager — Image by Bill Kaufman
Fellow Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist (SCVN), Bill Kaufman set out the other morning to photograph an Hepatic Tanager in the canyon’s riparian area. As luck would have it he was able to photograph this beauty singing in the morning sunshine.
While hiking Pima Canyon yesterday, Bill shared his photographing experience, later in the day emailing the above image.
Great image, Bill — photographing this sing bird is made difficult by its unsettled movement high is the trees. Thanks for sharing.
Thy duty, winged flame of spring, is but to love and fly and sing.
— from the poem “Nest” by James Russell Lowell
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — “The Gull Sees Farthest Who Flies Highest” 3 comments
Seagulls Near Oceanside Pier — Images by kenne
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Capturing The Moment — Curve-billed Thrasher On A Rock Leave a comment
Curve-billed Thrasher On A Rock — Image by kenne
Perched singing to all
On a rock beneath a tree
Noting our presence.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Yellow-eyed Junco (Junco phaeonotus) 4 comments
Yellow-eyed Junco (Junco phaeonotus) — Image by kenne
The Yellow-eyed Junco (Junco phaeonotus) is a species of junco, small American sparrows that are most often found in the mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico. — Image by kenne
Like most juncos, these little birds seem to enjoy jumping from limb to limb in the pine trees of Mt. Lemmon, occasionally darting to the ground. As a result, this bird can be difficult to photograph in the wild.
If you look closely at this birds legs, you will see several bands — must be a popular bird for scientific study.
kenne
