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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Las Cienegas Wildlife

In our brief stay here, and our travels nearby, we've spotted all sorts of wildlife.  The most amazing are the pronghorn antelope, who hang out near our RV occasionally.  This morning, we caught them running and leaping across the grasslands.  Be patient with the detailed expose on grass that appears in the middle of the video - there's a payoff:


Here is a complete list of all the wildlife we've seen this week:

Two crows on poles
Nine pronghorn - four grazing and five running
Two flycatchers perching and singing
One fat robin perching and singing
Two javelina, running from us
Two baby cows (well, not so wild life, but still notable)
One scratching horse butt (ditto)
One burro (ditto again)
Lots and lots of songbirds we couldn't identify
One harrier hawk, seen repeatedly in our neighborhood
Several mule deer
One fat grey squirrel
One owl that kept David awake one night
One grey rabbit we flushed on our morning walk
One BIG jackrabbit we flushed, who gave us a show, leaping across the grassland
Three roadrunners
One crow that followed us on our Jeep drive for 2 miles, obviously hoping we would run over or flush something for his lunch.

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