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053_A01_1
Harris Hawk
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 769
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053_A01_2
American Kestrel
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 35
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053_A01_3
Honorable Mention - American Kestrel in flight
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 391
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053_A02_1
Great Horned Owl at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 141
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053_A02_2
Black Vultures playing "tug of war" at the Bone Pit....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 339
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053_A02_3
Crested Caracara greeting others as they come in for a landing....at the Bone Pit....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 579
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053_A03_1
Little Blue Heron on the hunt....at the Front (South) Pond...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 401
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053_A03_2
Little Blue Heron...at the Front (South) Pond...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 298
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053_A03_3
Gertrude the Great Blue Heron....at the Wetlands Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 142
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053_A04_1
Wood Storks, God's gift to me for my time at the ranch....at the Wetlands Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 40
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053_A04_2
Wood Stork....at the Wetlands Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 270
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053_A04_3
A pair of Wood Storks....at the Wetlands Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 127
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053_A05_1
American Coot....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 40
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053_A05_2
American Coot....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 40
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053_A05_3
American Coot....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 243
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053_A06_1
Black Bellied Whistling Duck....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 111
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053_A06_2
Black Bellied Whistling Ducks at the Wetlands Pond...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 338
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053_A06_3
The fight is on.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 340
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053_A07_1
Killdeer bathing....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 347
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053_A07_2
Killdeer....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 338
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053_A07_3
Killdeer at the Main Ranch Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 111
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053_A08_1
Eastern Meadowlark...at the Maetze Habitat
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 271
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053_A08_2
Audubon's Oriole....at the Orsak Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 112
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053_A08_3
Audubon's Oriole....at the Orsak Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 250
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053_A09_1
Vermilion Flycatcher singing.....at the Main House....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 117
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053_A09_2
Vermilion Flycatcher with a bee in it's beak....at the Main House...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 258
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053_A09_3
A Couch's Kingbird, I think??? On the fence to the SE Pasture...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 448
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053_A10_1
Mexican Green Jay's visiting....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 307
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053_A10_2
Mexican Green Jay........at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 30
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053_A10_3
Mexican Green Jay........at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 133
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053_A11_1
Golden Fronted Woodpecker....at the Maetze Habitat
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 259
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053_A11_2
Golden Fronted Woodpecker....at the Maetze Habitat
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 28
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053_A11_3
Grooved Billed Anis courting.....at the Wetland's Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 129
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053_A12_1
Purple Martin with prey....at the Main House
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 245
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053_A12_2
Purple Martin.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 29
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053_A12_3
Go AWAY!!!!
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 36
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053_A13_1
Black Chinned Hummingbird, I think....at the Hummer Cactus Bush...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 232
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053_A13_2
Hummingbird....at the Hummer Cactus Bush
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 447
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053_A13_3
Hummingbird....at the Hummer Cactus Bush
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 37
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053_A14_1
Tom Turkey........at the SE Pasture
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 133
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053_A14_2
Tommy again....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 226
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053_A14_3
And again....at the Front (South) Pond
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 142
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053_A15_1
Bobwhite Quail - Female....at the Maetze Habitat
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 230
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053_A15_2
1st Place in Quail Category - Bobwhite Quail - Female
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 134
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053_A15_3
Bobwhite Quail - Female....at the Maetze Habitat
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 246
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053_A16_1
White Winged Dove....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 40
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053_A16_2
White Winged Dove....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 30
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053_A16_3
White Winged Dove....at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 133
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053_A17_1
Mockingbirds drinking at the Orsak Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 232
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053_A17_2
Longbilled Thrasher taking a drink at the Orsak.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 38
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053_A17_3
Mockingbird at the Orsak Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 33
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053_A18_1
Painted Bunting at the Front (South) Pond.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 56
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053_A18_2
Painted Bunting at the Wetlands Pond area....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 247
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053_A19_1
Northern Cardinal taking a dip at the Maetze Habitat........
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 454
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053_A19_2
Northern Cardinal taking a drink at the Orsak....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 55
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053_A19_3
Northern Cardinal playing with the water at the Maetze....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 158
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053_A20_1
Lincoln Sparrow bathing at the Front Pond.......
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 233
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053_A20_2
White Crowned Sparrow at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 150
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053_A20_3
White Crowned Sparrow at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 371
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053_A21_1
Ruby Crowned Sparrow taking a dip at the Maetze....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 556
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053_A21_2
Blue gray Natcatcher....at Orsak...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 269
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053_A21_3
Black Capped Chikadee...at Orsak...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 307
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053_A22_1
Brown Headed Cow Birds bathing at the Maetze Habitat...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 547
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053_A22_2
Common Grackle.....at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 533
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053_A22_3
Bronze Cowbird bathing at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 140
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053_B01_1
Young male deer starting his velvet horns at the Wetlands Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 495
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053_B01_2
Female deer at the Wetlands Pond, she looked kinda pregnant...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 41
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053_B01_3
Here is another view of her....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 214
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053_B04_1
Honorable Mention - Check out his ear....he had a tussle sometime in it's life...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 362
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053_B04_2
You could see my car in this rabbits eye....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 771
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053_B04_3
You could see the cart in this one....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 578
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053_B05_1
Bobcat in a sendero by the Wetlands....let me walk right up to within 50 feet of it....Wow...God is awesome.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 274
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053_B05_2
Bobcat...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 31
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053_B05_3
Bobcat ready to pounce on prey.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 40
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053_B06_1
My one and only coyote shot.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 35
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053_B08_1
My one and only armadillo shot....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 413
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053_B08_2
They were elusive.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 366
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053_C01_1
A Grass Skipper - unsure of the name....at the Maetze House...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 493
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053_C01_2
Checkered White at the Maetze Field....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 65
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053_C01_3
Giant Swallowtail at the Main Ranch House.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 35
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053_C02_1
A moth resting on an agave at the Main Ranch House....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 139
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053_C02_2
A moth at the Maetze House log pile.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 591
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053_C02_3
A moth at the Main House garden....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 381
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053_C03_1
Swallowtail?? Catepillar.....on Milkweed at the Main Ranch House....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 99
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053_C03_2
2nd Place in Catepillar Category
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 239
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053_C03_3
Swallowtail?? Catepillar.....on Milkweed at the Main Ranch House....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 433
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053_C04_1
A tiny spider at the Hummingbird Cactus Bush in the NW Pasture.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 518
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053_C04_2
A spider eating a cicada....I tried to save the cicada....the spider was faster....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 490
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053_C04_3
Spider eating a bee in the Main House.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 103
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053_C05_1
Paper Wasp at the Maetze House.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 894
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053_C05_2
Paper Wasp at the Maetze House....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 1438
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053_C05_3
Bee hive along Indian Creek by the Front Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 735
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053_C06_1
Damselfly resting at the Maetze cistern pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 160
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053_C06_2
Oranged Bellied Skimmer Dragonfly
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 134
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053_C06_3
Oranged Bellied Skimmer Dragonfly
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 237
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053_C07_1
A common beetle....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 332
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053_C07_2
Another shot of the beetle....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 654
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053_C08_1
A "Luber"?? Grasshopper at the Main Ranch House...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 1049
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053_C08_2
This little guy was hard to shoot, but I got him....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 190
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053_C08_3
Another grasshopper at the Main Ranch House garden...
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 396
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053_C09_1
An earthworm I found at the Maetze....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 292
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053_C09_2
A snail shell (something in it) at the Maetze....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 534
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053_D01_1
Red-earred Sliders sunning at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 93
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053_D01_2
A Red-earred Slider sunning at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 667
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053_D01_3
A Red-earred Slider yawning at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 309
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053_D02_1
A bullfrog hiding from the snakes on the Orsak....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 397
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053_D02_2
Bullfrog at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 536
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053_D02_3
Honorable Mention - Bullfrog and friend at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 249
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053_D03_1
Wood Lizard at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 735
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053_D03_2
Wood Lizard at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 512
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053_D03_3
Wood Lizard at the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 449
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053_D04_1
Texas Diamond Back Water Snake sunning at the Front (South) Pond....he was bigger than this photo looks.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 346
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053_D04_2
Texas Diamond Back Water Snakes caressing each other at the Front Pond.....ahhhhhh.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 87
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053_D04_3
Texas Diamond Back Water Snakes yawning at the Front Pond.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 292
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053_E01_1
Cardinal bathing at the Maetze Habitat....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 328
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053_E01_2
Eastern Meadowlark bathing at the Maetze Habitat.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 323
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053_E01_3
American Kestrel in flight (this was a very difficult shot folks)....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 78
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053_E02_1
Sunrise at the Main Ranch Pond.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 199
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053_E02_2
Sunset on the Front (South) Pond....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 1351
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053_E02_3
Sunrise at the Maetze House......
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 315
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053_E03_1
A moth trying to hide....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 602
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053_E03_2
Can you see him????
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 387
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053_E03_3
I know you can see this one....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 76
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053_E04_1
Patterns.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 283
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053_E04_2
Patterns.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 115
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053_E04_3
Patterns.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 584
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053_E05_1
Wetlands - The Secret Pond by the Orsak.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 338
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053_E05_2
Wetlands - The Secret Pond by the Orsak.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 63
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053_E05_3
Wetlands - The Secret Pond by the Orsak.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 292
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053_E06_1
Native Plants....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 73
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053_E06_2
Honorable Mention - Native Plants....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 300
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053_E06_3
Native Plants....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 67
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053_E07_1
Wildflowers.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 294
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053_E07_2
Wildflowers.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 70
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053_E07_3
Wildflowers.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 330
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053_E08_1
The Hummer Cactus Bush......
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 289
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053_E08_2
The Hummer Cactus Bush......can you see it on the upper right cactus pad???
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 35
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053_E08_3
The Hummer Cactus Bush......
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 160
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053_E09_1
The Maetze House from the south field.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 72
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053_E09_2
The road along Indian Creek.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 506
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053_E09_3
Lantana on the cattle guard with the Maetze House in the background....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 730
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053_E10_1
Great Horned owl at dusk........
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 40
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053_E10_2
Black Cowbirds in flight at sunrise by the Maetze Field....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 319
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053_E11_1
"I feel good!!!"
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 235
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053_E11_2
Dude, I love that hairdo....!!
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 160
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053_E11_3
I can do it.......heads up I'm coming in for a landing....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 149
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053_E12_1
The Maetze House with the Big Dipper above it.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 66
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053_E12_2
The Hummingbird Cactus bush with Gemini setting....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 53
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053_E12_3
The Front (South) Pond at night......
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 62
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053_E13_1
Some of the Ranch's kids.....
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 64
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053_E13_2
A cattle drive..........
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 100
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053_E13_3
Ridem Cowboy......
Date: 08/08/2009
Views: 977
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