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| Getting started on Tortugas Mountain's west side |
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| Bright green Mesquite Trees in an arroyo |
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| Rugged western slope of the mountain |
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| Doing her favorite thing: hiking |
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| Yucca fruit and jet contrail |
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| Tallest Soaptree Yucca |
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| Scott's Oriole getting ready to eat Ocotillo flowers |
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| Scott's Oriole flew into the Soaptree Yucca crown |
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| Peeking out |
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| This yucca is 13-to-15 feet tall |
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| Rolling desert scene |
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| New growth on a Prickly Pear Cactus pad |
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| Soaptree Yuccas are beginning to send up their flower stalks |
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| Soon to be flowers |
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| The delicate flower of Mormon Tea |
3 comments:
I wish I could hear the song of the Scott's oriole. I know how pretty it is.
Mormon Tea's blossom looks like a rose (at least in your image). I thought we were going to be treated to the Scott's Oriole song in a video clip! No orioles (neither Baltimore nor Orchard) here yet, but I have my office window open and will be attuned to their song as soon as they arrive. Most of "my" winter birds have migrated northward now (a good sign), but a few White-throated Sparrows are still hanging around my feeder; they're going to miss out on the best nesting territories!
We have White-throated Sparrows here in southern New Mexico, Scott, as well as Black-throated Sparrows. Doubt you'll see the latter in your neck of the woods.
:)
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