Perched Cormorants
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM

These dead branches on which the birds are perched (and notice their webbed feet) extended over a small pond at the time. Due to drought conditions the pond dried up years ago.

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The #moon tonight x36 magnification. Sorry for the blurry quality, it was made "free hand" through the window and it's thefirst attempt. I'm still looking for an affordable #digiscoping adapter for my #scope.

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Waxing Gibbous Moon
Central New Mexico, USA

I was looking for a photo for #MoonMonday and came across this old one. Curiously enough, the moon today is in almost the exact same phase as this 2009 image!

I took this photo using a 5.1 MP Olympus Wide Zoom camera though my Swarovski spotting scope. Don't recall the eyepiece setting.

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Snow Geese on Ice
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM

In honor of the Winter Solstice and Throwback Thursday I dug out one of my earliest photos from the refuge. Taken in December 2009 through a spotting scope of geese standing on a frozen pond. I reprocessed it this morning, mostly to increase the size for your viewing pleasure 😎
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