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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.
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.
Hope I got the ID. right lol !
Thank you very much for your kind comments, favorites and looking and please stay safe !
The Painted Desert area is a broad region of rocky badlands encompassing more than 93,500 acres, this vast landscape features rocks in every hue – from deep lavenders and rich grays to reds, oranges and even pinks.
Located in Northern Arizona, the Painted Desert stretches from Grand Canyon National Park eastward to Petrified Forest National Park, with a large portion lying within the Navajo Nation.
A natural canvas millions of years in the making, no one event shaped the Painted Desert. Instead, the area – which is home to many memorable formations and features – serves as proof of the earth’s volatility: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and sunlight all combined to create the Painted Desert. Deposits of clay and sandstone, stacked in elegant layers, play with the setting Arizona sun in an altering display of colorful radiance.
Both the Navajo and Hopi people have lived in the region for hundreds of years, but it was Spanish Colonialists who gave this landscape the name we know it by today – El Desierto Pintado.
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1957 Borgward Typ Hansa 2400 Serie II (1955-1958) Modell 4-türige Pullman Limousine
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Taken at my friend's ranch near Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada.
A summertime leftover taken before the autumn deluge had begun in September (while it was still officially summer, mind you).
I was sitting down relaxing on the ground last June. The grass was sprinkled with an array of wild flowers in an old clear cut. The area at hand was replete with new growth like willows, hardhack, and young alders. It was there that I found this cautious but curious fellow.
And, I might add...an overabundance of mosquitoes!
Clay-coloured Sparrow
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/...
possibly a chipping sparrow----again, not sure !!!
I am not usually this uncertain identifying birds in my area, but would appreciate help in this case. If it is indeed a clay coloured sparrow, then it is a lifer for me !!!
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.
Clays Corner, the FORMER HOME OF The Possum Drop was an annual New Year's Eve event in which an opossum is lowered at midnight. The event began in 1990 in Brasstown, North Carolina and was held for 24years it ended in 2018 ...PITA made a fuss eventhough someone reportedly took good care of the possums (we never went to them)
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Just an old fashioned gas station - It is a quaint spot just down the road from the John C Campbell Folk Center . The real fun is on Friday night when people gather for mountain music in the back room of the ole general store
Shot at the Floral Exhibition Show organised by the Horticultural Association of West Bengal. There I found a few Potters using the opportunity to display their art work. These Clay wonders are used by a lot of people to decorate their houses.
With a healthy 18 JIA's in tow 66009 sweeps through the Worcestershire countryside at Tibberton heading 6V99 Bescot to St Blazey discharged china clay. V99 usually runs Monday evenings so it made for an unusual sight to see it on a Tuesday morning.
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.