Canoeing the Rio Grande

March-April 2015

Nature

30 Bird Species

Ash-throated Flycatcher



Barred Owl
Black Phoebe



Black Vulture



Blue-winged Teal



Canyon Wren



Cave Swallow



Common Raven



Eurasian Collared Dove



European Starling



Golden Eagle



Great Blue Heron



Greater Roadrunner
Great-tailed Grackle



House Finch



House Sparrow



Mottled Duck



Northern Cardinal



Northern Mockingbird



Northern Rough-winged Swallow



Peregrine Falcon



Pyrrhuloxia



Rock Wren



Say's Phoebe



Song Sparrow



Spotted Sandpiper



Turkey Vulture



Verdin
White-winged Dove



Yellow-rumped Warbler

Butterflies

Insects and a scorpion

Plants

• springtime growth and blooms in the desert

in shrubs/trees - many acacia trees and Indian tobacco



beside streams



among rocks

Photo

in dried mud



• all colours of flowers everywhere

red



yellow



blue



green



purple (many groups of bluebonnets, the Texas state flower - they look like lupins)



pink



white




Rocks and minerals

• limestone



• quartz



• amethyst



• agate




Wildlife

• wild cattle



• sheep



• turtles



• scat



• catfish movements in the eddies



• burrows



• footprints