I have invested a lot of time chasing this bird in the past few days so you could tell me what it is (I do actually know and that is part iof the reason for my obsession - I jwasn't leaving Northern Arizona without it). I figured since they were out there they would be good for the quiz - I remember seeing them in the field guides and thinking what a cool looking bird - interesting colors. Last week's soaring raptor was a Red-tailed Hawk and, to be even more specific, a light juvenile Western Red-tailed Hawk.
I and the Bird, the Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is being hosted this week by Roger at Words and Pictures - fly on over for a visit and some great blogging about birds!
The first portion of my week here was spent first at the Grand Canyon and then learning my way around the area looking for certain birds as well as other creatures. One of my quests is to find the "other" tassel-eared squirrel and, while I have yet to get that completed, I did "capture" another species of chipmunk in the form of this Gray-collared Chipmunk. That makes the fourth species of chipmunk I have photographed since setting out in May - I did not realize there were so many kinds and I have several yet to go for a complete set.
I have not posted much this week is because I have begun preparing images for the new version of Beautiful Nature (a presentation of my photography set to Beethoven). I have added additional music which will bring the program to just under 500 images (from approx. 330) and I intend to replace all but a few images that were in the original version. I automate as much of the image processing as I can but it is still a time consuming endeavor. And as soon as I finish that it will be time to prep about 400 images for the updated version of Beautiful Birds. Yikes.
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