Spring Birds and Flowers Along the Rio Grande, #2

Spring Birds (Canada Geese) and Flowers Along the Rio Grande, #2, May 7, 2019

My favorite family of Canada geese, who hang out close to the roadside and are tolerant of the van, when I come to a stop beside them. They share this small piece of grassy river bank with another family of geese, who aren’t so tolerant and take to the water when I stop here.

Upstream of Pilar, in the Orilla Verde section of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.

The Green hedgehog cactus comes out shortly before the Claret Cup hedgehog cactus.

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