1 of my favorite photos & a quote from 1 of my favorite authors. This past winter there were days when #MountainBluebirds gathered by the partially frozen river to drink. I happened to capture a photo of this #MountainBluebird on rocks beside the #SantaFeRiver. #Bluebird #HenryDavidThoreau

Been to a #Jeopardy clue back in 2006 I snapped a photo of friends leaving the Buckhorn Saloon in Pinos Altos, NM @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social

Celebrating the Birds of late April of 2025
I created this collage of birds, with their names, I’d seen lately. The world outside is waiting for you to explore. This is a resource worth protecting and preserving.
Jerry Cheney, Santa Fe Naturalist Photographer
#SantaFeBirds #NaturalistPhotography

Oy vey! With all Meshuggeneh emanating from the Schmuck in the White House I am Plotz and felling the need the Kvetch in Yiddish. I need some menschen in my life.

It’s America in Mourning instead of Morning in America so the fact that this was the first butterfly I saw this year seems sadly appropriate.
- Mourning Cloak Butterfly - Santa Fe, NM - 03-16-2025
#MourningCloakButterfly
#MourningInAmerica

Merlin, a bird of prey in the falcon family, is a yearly visitor to Santa Fe, New Mexico that I have seen in Winter several times. #Merlin #MerlinBirdOfPrey

Mountain Bluebirds seen Tuesday by the Santa Fe River. Water is a precious resource for us & for birds & other wildlife. I fervently hope that we can find a way to have a semi-permanent water source. One idea is creating a watering hole like they do in Africa.

#MountainBluebird #WaterForWildlife

Mountain Bluebirds on a Juniper by the River Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA on Friday, January 24, 2025

#MountainBluebird #MountainBluebirds #BluebirdsOnBluesky

#RegalRaven on a Juniper
#Raven #Corvid

Photo taken on Thursday, January 16, 2025 on the El Camino Real Hiking Trail AKA The River Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Young Chipping Sparrow - looking super cute while balancing on a rock.

One of my most popular photos.

#CuteSparrow #ChippingSparrow #ImmatureChippingSparrow

White-crowned Sparrows photographed on Sunday, December 8, 2024 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

#WhiteCrownedSparrows #Birding #Birds #SantaFeNaturalist

Four of the several species of birds seen in Frenchy’s Field Park and the River Trail in Santa Fe, NM on Wed. 12/4/2024
Species ID: 1. White-Crowned Sparrow 2. American Kestrel 3. Northern Flicker 4. Western Bluebird

A #WesternBluebird captured on photo Monday Afternoon. Seemed appropriate on Bluesky!

Santa Fe River flowing south through Agua Fria. The photo was taken less than an hour before sunset,
#SantaFeRiver

American Kestrel by the Santa Fe River, half way between Frenchy’s Field Park and the Siler Road Bridge. #AmericanKestrel #Kestrel

Curve-billed Thrasher under dried Sacred Datura
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: “Curve-billed Thrashers… forage on the ground, using the bill to sweep back and forth through leaf litter and soil. They toss large pieces of vegetation…to one side to uncover insect prey.”

#CurveBilledThrasherForaging

Curve-billed Thrasher taking flight from a Cholla Cactus. #CurveBilledThrasher #Birding #SantaFeBirds