Photos from New Mexico State Parks
September 2017


I thought these clouds were interesting enough to photograph. At Clayton Lake State Park, New Mexico.

Male Bushtit at Santa Rosa Lake State Park. Lots of them here, big flocks.

A Crissal Thrasher that was surprisingly cooperative.

Juniper Titmouse

A very shy Sage Thrasher, could not get it to come out in the open.

This mostly ID's as a Desert Grassland Whiptail, but it is not supposed to be here at Santa Rosa Lake State Park, according to range maps.
So, for now I will leave it as an unidentified whiptail, possibly a hybrid or intergrade. Whiptails are notorious for that.

No Pinyon Jays yet, just Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays.

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