User:JerryFriedman/gallery
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Most of the blurry pictures were taken with camera binoculars, and they were the best I could do in the situation, so take it easy.
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[edit] New Mexico
 Lazuli Bunting, above Pilar, New Mexico |
 American Kestrel with snake, Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge. Ophiophagy needed a picture. |
 Neotropic Cormorants, Bosque del Apache |
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 Sandhill Cranes, ditto |
 Proving the existence of Ross's Geese (as if there were any doubt), ditto |
 Canyon Towhee in its natural habitat next to a trailer, Santa Fe Community College, New Mexico |
 Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) from another trip to the same place near Pilar. |
 Pecos Mariposa Lily (Calochortus gunnisonii var. perpulchra—a variety found only in a small area of New Mexico), Hamilton Mesa, Santa Fe National Forest. |
 Corallorrhiza maculata, too bad there were already much better pictures. |
 Horned Lark, LVNWR again |
 Ross's Goose, Bosque del Apache again |
 Immature Ross's Goose (small at left) with Lesser Snow Geese, Bosque del Apache |
 Gray-headed Dark-eyed Junco, Northern New Mexico College, Española |
 Pilgrims at hilltop shrine between Nambé and Chimayó, Good Friday |
 Aid station for pilgrims |
 Pilgrims waiting to get into Santuario |
 Crowd of pilgrims, including man carrying cross |
 Oldies |
 A more modern, "import" lowrider |
 The Santa Cruz church |
 cars in Española |
 the Bond House in Española |
 Sign advertising panocha |
 Female Lesser Scaup, Rio Grande Nature Center, Albuquerque |
 Canada Geese courting, ditto |
 Cliff fendlerbush near Santa Cruz Lake |
 Silvery Lupin on the road to Borrego Mesa |
 Silky pasqueflower, closer to Borrego Mesa |
 ditto |
 Silvery Lupin right next to the other one, showing leaf texture for identification |
 Better Gray-headed Junco, Borrego Mesa |
 male Blue Grosbeak |
 Better Plumbeous Vireo two years after the one above but at the same place |
 crop of previous picture |
[edit] My yard
 Cane Cholla in March snow next to my yard |
 Cane Cholla flowers and fruit |
 Ladder-backed Woodpecker in the cholla already pictured |
 The quest continues! |
 Blue Flax in my garden |
 Silverleaf nightshade ditto |
 May 2006 |
 ditto |
 ditto |
 Fendler's hedgehog (Echinocereus fendleri) ditto |
 "cane" or dried stem of Cane Cholla, collected at El Dorado, New Mexico, photographed at my house. |
 Rocky Mountain penstemon, June 2007 |
 ditto |
 Thyme-leaf Spurge in my garden |
 Mountain Chickadee on that same cholla |
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 On a sunflower seedhead this time |
 Pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco, first success in a six-week-long quest |
 If that's the second success, it came one minute after the first. |
 Sandhill Cranes, and are those geese at right? |
 Iris bucharica flower |
 the whole plant |
 Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha flower, fully open in the sun |
 a whole plant |
 House Finch nest and eggs |
 Yellow salsify seedhead |
[edit] Oaxaca
 Grayish Saltator. Thanks to Jimfbleak and Sabine's Sunbird for ID discussion. |
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 the cave where the earliest known corn was found |
 teosintes said to be the parents of corn, Oaxaca, Oaxaca |
 tree-fern frond |
 escaped Crocosmia |
 unidentified lupine |
[edit] Kenya
 male Hartlaub's Bustard (thanks to JMK for id) |
 Gabar Goshawk (thanks to JMK for id) |
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 Same bird temporarily abandoning egg |
 White-bellied Bustard (Eupodotis senegalensis canicollis) |
 African Pipit—don't bother clicking |
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 adult male African Stonechat |
 Olive Thrush or Mountain Thrush |
 Hildebrandt's Starling (thanks to JMK for id) |
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 Fork-tailed or Common Drongo |
 Northern Black Flycatcher (thanks to JMK for id) |
 chick of the bird in the previous picture |
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 All this time I had a better Brubru. |
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 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove with emerald spots |
 a sharper one |
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 Long-toed Lapwing, probably the worst one I'm uploading |
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 Cheetah to illustrate kleptoparasitism |
 Spotted Hyena ditto |
 Hyenas and vultures ditto |
 African Pygmy Falcons. Not my best picture of them, but it shows the eyespots. |
 Swahili Sparrow—see below for a better one |
 Baglafecht Weavers (black and yellow) and female Village Weaver |
 African Grey Flycatcher (thanks to JMK and Brian Finch of www.mathewssafaris.com for confirming the id) |
 Rufous-naped Lark (thanks to JMK for slightly tentative id) |
 Winding Cisticola (thanks to JMK and Sabine's Sunbird for id) |
 female Southern Ground Hornbill tossing a grasshopper into her throat |
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 Lappet-faced Vultures (left) and a White-backed Vulture |
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 Better picture of a Swahili Sparrow |
 female Purple Grenadier |
 Pack of Banded Mongooses—not very good, but it shows their social behavior |
