Santa Fe on Saturday October 28 at 4:45pm at the CCA and in Albuquerque on October 29 at 1:00pm at the Guild. The movie and panel presentation is a Wildlands Network presentation!  Sponsored by New Mexico Wildways! Hosted and co-sponsored by Albuquerque Wildlife Federation, BirdsEye View GIS, Defenders of Wildlife, Ecotone Landscape Planning, New Mexico Wilderness […]

I took a class in casting prints of wildlife  from Mitch Johnson and  Peter Callen of Pathways.   The class was really good, and amid puns  of “come to the casting call” and “someday my prints will come” attendees learned a  lot  about getting good casts of wildlife prints! We were using 30-minute set (or so) […]

During my work today at the museum, I was logging Voles (red-backed, gray-sided red-backed, and Southern red-backed), Collared, Alpine,  and Turkestan Red Pika, and Least Weasels.  Also logged one Mexican Harvest Mouse, and a Stout.  The skin of the Stout is below.  Google has some good images of these animals in the wild.  I never […]

Got a chance  to get closer to the cats in the corner  of  the  mammal collection at the Southwestern Museum of Biology.  There  was one that I thought was a jaguar (Panthera onca) – native to the Americas.  It is a leopard (Panthera pardus) – a cat  native to Africa!  Below is a closer  image of the […]

The Sandia Mountain Bear Fair is presented by the Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative and Bernalillo County Open Space.  It is an educational and fun event for the whole family!  Learn about living with bears close to home and what resources are available to help both families and bears!  One to Four pm, September 24 in […]

There is a local group that I work with called  Pathways.  We set out cameras to see where wildlife passes through in the area.  The idea is to ultimately gain understanding of what pathways nature/wildlife uses to move between regions.  Observations are coordinated with UC Davis. In the case of cougars, males can range hundreds […]

A little over 4 weeks ago, I had a total knee replacement.   The surgery was good, and then came the physical therapy!   That has been hard.  Good, but hard.  I am getting most of my range of motion back, and getting my strength back as well. I am really enjoying having time with […]

Today is the Bio-blitz at the Rio Grande Nature Center.   A bird walk has started,  and a porcupine walk as well.   It is a nice,  cool day here.  Roadrunners dart across the ground.  A turtle was brought in from the Bosque for viewing.   He is trying to climb out of the cooler. […]