What started out to be a 'spur of the moment' get together with birders and friends Linda Rockwell and Donna Simonetti, this ended up to be one of my best birding experiences. The Little Toad Creek Inn & Tavern hosted the "Hummingbird Celebration" just north of Silver City, New Mexico. This drew together our common interest: birds. Speaker Joan Day-Martin gave a very nice presentation about hummingbird identification. Later that morning we went into the Gila National Forest and enjoyed a splendid afternoon hiking and taking photos of deer,flowers,mushrooms,beetles etc. On Sunday after breakfast we hiked onto a different trail and no words can explain the excitement of viewing this magnificent creature: the Spotted Owl! I have never EVER viewed or photographed an owl in the wild, so this was a big event for me. We all felt the mystical aura of this endangered Owl and were so happy he obliged us many happy and precious photos of him:)
Spotted Owl - Gila National Forest - near Mimbres, New Mexico
My short video of preening Spotted Owl
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| Donna Simonetti & son Juan |
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| Linda Rockwell, Cynthia White, Donna Simonetti |
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| Can one ever have enough cameras? :) |
12 comments:
Truly outstanding! What a find? A handsome bird and one that's harder to find every year.
Oh Cynthia, I envy you : )
We were fortunate indeed! I still can hardly believe this:) Thank you!
Wow,what a magnificent find! This owl is stunning!!
It was a big event for all of us. We were the luckiest women in nature that day. Couldn't have asked for a better view. Had a GREAT time!
Those smiling faces tell the whole story! Wow! I have never seen a spotted owl, never mind photgraphed one, so you are more than one up on me! Congrats!
What a joy it must have been to view this magnificent creature! How fortunate you are. Wonderful photograph and video, Cynthia!
That is soooo very cool! You all look very happy!
Fantastic find. super photos.
It was a wonderful trip and an excellent outing. Nice post Cynthia!
Thank you friends for comments on this wonderful event:)
Very cool photos and the video is great too. Nice work! And thank you for your kind comments on my blog. Hope you have a great day. John
How did I miss this! Super..an endangered owl & Linda draped in cameras.. lol!
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