Nick Mustoe

And now for a regional joke:
Q: How do you know spring has come in southeast Utah?
A: All the license plates turn green.

Is he Dele or Dele's brother?

Cool study. Definitely getting some attention from snow and forest interested folks.

A mated pair of cranes are performing the unison call shortly after arriving back to their nesting grounds. Image was taken a few years ago.

A cropped version of the original frame showing the birds a little more close up.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShoutItOut.
#birds #SandhillCrane

Original frame and then edited and cropped. Sometimes it's nice to see the original frame since we crop so much with bird photography.

A mated pair of Sandhills performing the unison call.

American Dipper in a stream

American Bison with city in the background

Three extremely cute cackling geese looking concerned or sleepy while sitting in shallow water.

Colorado is very nice so far. If you're in the Monte Vista area, come hear me give a talk and/or join my workshop next weekend at the MV Crane Festival: mvcranefest.org/festival/

Mourning dove nests are minimalist modern art.

Sleeping Ute Mountain with glimmers of snow in the background. Foreground of mesas feeding into a pinyon and juniper canyon. Bright sunshine and blue skies with whispy white clouds.

Quite a beautiful day on the Sand Canyon Trail at Canyon of the Ancients National Monument.

Photograph showing current fire conditions.

#BlueBellFire in #Boulder, CO (near Chautauqua Park) currently burning amid extremely dry and near record-warm conditions (69F and 7% RH). Lack of strong winds right now thankfully a major mitigating factor. So far, mostly sfc fire plus occasional torching in confers. #COwx

This should simply be referred to as pulling a Macclesfield.

I finally got some flight shots 📷 and a little bit closer portrait shots 📷 of the leucistic bald eagle 🪶 hanging around Southwest Missouri last week. She actually flew right by me and landed pretty close a couple times. Very blessed. #Birds #BlueSkyPhotography #NatureLovers #Eagles #Rarebird

We've all been Mary at some point or another.

Pet

A cattle dog with a black head and mostly blue and white body looks on from the snow.

Taking care of a friend's cattle dog for the weekend. Smart dog. Always needs a job. Very person and toy focused.

I'm curious. How do you feel about that decision now?

I love the part in every breadmaking recipe when it comes to "now coat the entire kitchen from floor to ceiling in flour before providing the loaf with a back massage."

A Whooping Crane probing for food in the water and making a little splash.

A Mallard hen taking a bath.

A Mallard hen taking a bath and really splashing alot in the water.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #WaterDroplets

A Whooping Crane looking for food and two Mallards having some bath joy.

Come work in the Blue Mountains with my amazing coworkers this summer!!

Paintbrush, a merle rough collie, faces the camera with snow-covered fur.

Paintbrush is enjoying the first real snow of the year. 🖌️❄️

Detections from the Next Generation Fire System comes in geojson format. Cool to see more potential applications for a wildland fire detection and monitoring!

I built a computer last August. Just checked and I ordered 2tb drives for $119 each and NewEgg now wants $434 per drive. Wow.

A red-tailed hawk launches from a wire into flight in front of an office building.

A red-tailed hawk with a nice full wingspread and tail spread.

A red-tailed hawk in flight.

A red-tailed hawk in flight in a wings-down position. It's head is hidden.

Here's a set of in-flight shots of that red-tailed hawk. Such a treat to see.
#birds
#red-tailedHawk

This is the correct take.

Album cover of Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister.

I insist on this album being played at rock out volume. It seems like it shouldn't work, but it does.

it’s pretty wild how much vegetation the recent cold snap in Florida has killed

coupled with drought + high winds that uhhhh can’t be good for wildfire potential

Townsend’s solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) perched on a twig with wind blowing against its feathers.

I listened to this Townsend’s solitaire's call yesterday. Wonderful highs and lows greeting the world.

Whoever inherits my Google Maps "good campsites" list and labeled foraging spots, you're welcome. It is my life's work.

Grassy meadow in the mountains with clouds and fall color aspen in the distance.

I'm having my mid-February yearning for the high country. I want to eat raspberries, hike in the aspen, and set up a hammock.

Measures of Snow The Nature Conservancy explores how forest thinning and prescribed burning affects western snowpack, water supply and forest resilience.

Snowtography informed forestry article from The Nature Conservancy. Southwest Colorado is home to one of the first attempts to apply snow smart forestry within real world limitations.

A tall Oak tree with four Bald Eagles. The tree has grown on a sandbar in the WI River.

There is a sandbar in the WI River with a huge old Oak tree where the Bald Eagles like to hang out. It's leaning quite a bit, so I don't know how many more years it has. The sand isn't the greatest base, but it grew very tall in the middle if the river.
#birds #Oaks #BaldEagles #ThickTrunkTuesday