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It's not the first time this little clay angel has appeared on my stream. It was given to me when I first arrived in New Mexico. Handmade of clay at one of the local pueblos here.
The base is 1 inch (2,54 cm)
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Handmade.
A Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) rests in the shrubs along the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park, Saskatchewan, Canada.
23 May, 2016.
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The nestlings keep begging and the parents keep foraging. This one has a few bugs and will soon head down to the nest in long grass on the ground.
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La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Turdus grayi (Clay-colored Thrush / Mirla parda)
The Clay-colored Thrush’s range just reaches the United States, in southernmost Texas, but elsewhere it ranges south through eastern Mexico and over much of Middle America to northwest South America, in Colombia.
It is the national bird of Costa Rica, where it is well known as the "Yigüirro".
At least nine subspecies are generally recognized, although geographical variation between them is generally rather minor, involving slight differences in overall coloration in most instances.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Omarama Clay Cliffs. The Clay Cliffs are a geological wonder; ‘bad land’ sharp pinnacles and ridges separated by steep and narrow ravines.
The Cliffs were created out of layers of silt and gravel deposited by ancient glaciers around 20 million years ago. These layers were compressed, then up-lifted by geological activity in the area, then as the high points began to be eroded pinnacles were left behind.
They are so common here that I take them for granted. Two days ago I met a birder from Nova Scotia who came here specifically to see this one among other bird species they don't see on the east coast. A look at a breeding range map shows that they are not common at all east of the Canadian prairie regions and south of the most northern central US states.
I posted a link to their song for my contacts who live in places where they don't see or hear them.
Big Lake Interpretive Trail. Parkland County, Alberta.
5.4.2017.
A re-working of a shot taken back in 2017.
In some lovely early evening sun, LMS Stanier Pacific 4-6-2 No 46233 'Duchess of Sutherland' approaches Clay Cross with the 'Cathedrals Express', - a Barrow Hill - London King's Cross steam excursion.
The Clay-colored Sparrow’s buzzy song is a signature sound of the vast shrublands of the northern prairie and Great Plains. Though they’re not brightly colored, their pale tones and overall clean, crisp markings help set them apart from other sparrows. Their numbers have slowly declined over the past 40 years.
Six Union Pacific GE AC4400CW/AC4400CW-CTEs lead a westbound coal empty through Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 25, 2011. Above the second locomotive in the distance is Big 10 Curve, and on the far left is Rocky siding.
Bentonitic clay concretions that measured between 6” and 10” across were found in a layer of the Lower Cretaceous Thermopolis Shale east of the Causeway on US 14A near Kane, Wyoming. Many of them had iron oxide stains. Most of the oxides were distributed in circular bands as seen here. Beneath the weathered surface the concretions are encased in black, organic rich, fissile shale.