hagerman nat'l wildlife refuge tx

double breasted cormorant

red shouldered hawk

eastern meadowlark

northern pintail

snow geese

killdeer

black vulture

great blue heron

downy woodpecker

maybe greater roadrunner ?

gulls

raccoon tracks

deer tracks

dead feral hogs

 

 the owl stared into my soul

i think it changed me

 he's afraid of sharks, and obsessed with finding their teeth

 “What do animals mean to the contemporary imagination? We do not know. Or we have forgotten. Or we are too busy to notice. Or we experience psychic numbing to cope with the scale of extinctions and we feel nothing. Or we begin through our grief to realize how much we love our fellow creatures and we tend to them.”

~Alison Hawthorne Deming, Zoologies

i can't remember what kind of cigarettes he smoked

 the night I heard a Great Horned Owl.