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A Chance Encounter with Aoudad Sheep Lambs

By: Christena March 21, 2015March 21, 2015

Nature StoriesAmmotragus lervia, Aoudad, Aoudad Lambs, Carlsbad Caverns, Exotics, Mammals, Nature Stories, New Mexico Wildlife, Texas Wildlife, Wildlife Photography2 Comments

There is always a first for everything and I recently got to see Aoudad sheep (Ammotragus lervia) lambs for the first time. Thanks to my friend, Emily, who had already taken photos of these babes, I was on the look out for them as Sharla and I was driving into Carlsbad Caverns National Park in…

The Voice of a Meadowlark

By: Christena February 20, 2015February 20, 2015

Christena's PhotographyAvian, Grulla National Wildlife Refuge, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Stories, New Mexico Wildlife, Sturnella neglecta, Texas Wildlife, Western Meadowlark, Wildlife Photography2 Comments

You’re stopped on the High Plains of Texas, get out of your car and then you hear a call that sounds like a low throaty explosive chuck. Then the sound turns into a rich flute-like jumble of gurgling notes descending the music scale. If you are stopped anywhere in the High Plains of Texas along…

Photo Journal of Great Horned Owl – Part Two

By: Christena January 31, 2015January 24, 2018

Christena's PhotographyAvian, Birds, Bubo virginianus, Friends of Muleshoe and Grulla NWR, Great Horned Owl, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Nazareth Texas, NWR, Texas, Texas Wildlife, Wildlife Photography2 Comments

Just last week I photographed a great horned owl at the Nazareth cemetery and I briefly mentioned the ever-present, but mysterious great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) near Muleshoe, Texas. Earlier this week this owl became elusive no more to my camera. My friend, Ginny and I have known…

Photo Journal of Great Horned Owl

By: Christena January 23, 2015January 24, 2018

Christena's PhotographyAvian, Birds, Bubo virginianus, Cemetery Photography, Cemetery Wildlife, Christena's Photography, Great Horned Owl, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Muleshoe Texas, Nazareth Texas, owls, Wildlife PhotographyLeave a Comment

Walking in a cemetery to verify names in a database, I kept seeing lots of dove feathers on the ground that I had never observed before in the Nazareth cemetery. Then I noticed the owl pellets…. I looked up into the trees for the maker of the pellets. What I spotted was the barrel shape…