Hummingbird on an Aloe Plant

Horsetail Falls

Beautiful Butterfly

Teardrop Arch, Monument Valley, Arizona

Avocet in non-breeding colors

It is breeding time now, so this is probably a juvenile who will breed next year.

Female Stilt

Cormorant and its catch

Red-tailed Hawk chick

I did not stay long at this nest, only enough time to take a few shots. The parents are very protective and they circled and cried overhead and I did not want to upset them more. Great Horned Owls don’t care if a photographer comes to see the nest, but the hawks do. For me, this was the first, to find this chick in a hawk nest, far out in the desert. I won’t go back, but it was a thrill to see this baby.

Least Bittern – Featured in Arizona Highways Magazine

This photo was chosen by Arizona Highways Online Magazine for their theme, “At The Water’s Edge”

Shirley Ramaley‎ | Tres Rios

To see all the photographs chosen:       http://arizonahighways.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/friday-fotos-on-the-waters-edge/

There is always some beautiful photography in this world-known magazine.

Green Heron that lives on my neighborhood lake