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| Cloudy start |
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| Purple Prickly Pear Cactus |
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| Becca spots a rabbit |
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| This one: a Desert Cottontail |
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| Growing season in the Mesilla Valley |
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| Vigilant trailblazer |
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| Really blurry photo of a sparrow-like bird with yellow throat |
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| View across the desert to the Organ Mountains |
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| On the road back to Tortugas |
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| Sun finally breaking through |
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| Well-deserved rest on a desert hike |
3 comments:
Packrat: Two items. First, my "Birds of North America" does not list a Yellow-throated Sparrow. The bird in the image, admittedly blurry, looks like a warbler to me, not a sparrow. Could it be a Yellow-rumped Warbler?
Second, my academic entomologist friend was stumped by your desert lugnuts--even when I sent him your descriptions and the two images from your earlier post in which you were holding one of the lugnuts I suggested to him that the lugnuts might be entrance tunnels created by a trapdoor spider. He said that they very well might be, since he couldn't think of any insect that would make anything like them. What do you think about my suggestions?
Your photos today are especially beautiful, Packrat.
Turns out there is a Yellow-throated Sparrow, Scott, just not on this continent.
http://www.pbase.com/dophoto/image/125647465
The thing is the bird I photographed looked an awful lot like the Yellow-throated Sparrow. Definitely not a warbler, especially not the Yellow-rumped. "Mine" definitely had a sparrow beak and was the same size. I'll keep searching
As far as the dirt lugnuts go, I appreciate your help. Thank your friend for me, too. Your guess is as good as mine as to what made them, but I'm going to keep searching. I'll let you know if I discover anything definitive about them. Thanks for your suggestions.
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