West Texas

 

We drove east around El Paso to the Guadelope Mountain National Park which is the highest point in Texas.  Pictured is El Capitan at 8,749 feet.  We camped in the canyon surrounded on three sides by mountains.  Everything is so green in the desert from the monsoon rains that came every afternoon.

Pictured (Painted) Grasshopper

Stag Beetle

Wild Christmas Plant

American Grasshopper

Apache Plume

Singing Blue Grosbeak

Townsend's Warbler sings in the rain

Multicolored Asian Lady Bug larvae

Giant Centipede

A rare find- Black-chinned Sparrow

Red-spotted Toad

Rock Wren

Vagrant Grasshopper

Female Black Widow Spider

Cactus Bugs eating Prickly Pear fruit

Desert Blonde Tarantula

Cactus Wren

Blue Dasher - Male threat display

Elegant Bush Katydid

California Mantid - Male

True Katydid

Looking south toward Ft. Davis from the 5,520ft. lookout at Davis Mountains State Park

Greater Roadrunner - bill clacking

Question Mark Butterfly

Woodhouse's Scrub Jay

Black-headed Grosbeak

Vermilian Flycatcher

Jack-O-Lantern fungus

Sacred Thorn Apple - night bloomer

Devil's Claw blossom

Devil's Claw Seedpod

Eastern Lubber Grasshopper

Aoudads - exotic escapees in West Texas

Bewick's Wren

Yellow Garden Spider

Axis Deer Herd - Another exotic import

Axis fawn in our RV park at Johnson Creek

Far enough east again to get Carolina Wren

Scissor's-tailed Flycatcher heading south

Black-capped Vireo at Kerr Wildlife Area

So much fun to travel and be amazed at all God has created and put in our path along the way.

Love & Prayers
Ty & Ida Baumann

SW New Mexico & SE Arizona

 

Continuing our trip high in the Gila Mountains of Southwest New Mexico, we traveled Emmory Summit - over 9,000 feet.  

Steller's Jay

Townsend's Warbler

Zone-tailed Hawk 

Zone-tailed adults interacted with us in his territory

Painted Redstart

Cordilleran Flycatcher

Pleasing Fungus Beetles 

Red-faced Warbler

Nelson's Larkspur

Purple Geranium

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

Interesting walk through history

We spotted a young Spotted Owl

Baby Javelina sticks close to Mom

Sweet Four-O'Clock

Broad-tailed Hummingbird tries out our feeder

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Bridled Titmouse

Plumbeous Vireo

On the road to Cave Creek Canyon out of Portal Arizona

Selecting our campsite under the towering canyon walls

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Look very closely in the cavity for three little yellow bills.
A fun surprise for us - Elegant Trogon chicks.

Dad brings in a large Walking Stick to feed the hungry young

Two days later, they all fledged the nesting cavity

Elegant Trogon keeps calling (barking) to dispersing young

Female MacGillivray's Warbler

Mule Deer twins

As soon as the bird seed was out, the Mexican Jays came to devour it

Mexican Jay

Our first "life bird" in a long time - Berylline Hummingbird

Violet-crowned Hummingbird

Arizona Sister Butterfly

Lesser Long-nosed Bat - many swarmed feeder until empty everynight

Blue-throated Mountain Gem

Coati Mundi  in Paradise, AZ

White-tailed button buck in out campsite - bad itch

Arizona Woodpecker

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Band-tailed Pigeons flock to Paradise feeder

Curve-billed Thrasher

White-winged Doves

Cactus Wren busy building a new nest

Sulfur-bellied Fycatcher

Rivoli's Hummingbird - Magnificent!!

Acorn Woodpecker

Lingering Thunderheads at sunset.
Another awesome adventure as we traveled towared Texas 
seeing God's creation everywhere we go.

Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann