Another marvelous Rio Grande trip today. With falling water levels, it is a source of awe and wonder to experience how the river continually forges new channels.

The above-water sandbanks and below-water mudflats make for tricky navigation and very strong currents, but what an adventure!

Sightings included Green, Great Blue, and Black-Crowned Night-Herons, Snowy Egrets, Canada Geese, Spotted Sandpipers, Cooper’s Hawk, Black and Say’s Phoebes, Turkey vultures, ravens, muskrat, beaver, and even a Plover.

As always, the stillness, solitude, expansiveness, and deep connection with nature and the elements are unsurpassed, as is the beauty of the water, light, rock formations, willows, cattails, and other vegetation.