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Monday, February 21, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Red Moustache, Northern Flicker, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, February 21, 2011
Red Moustache, Northern Flicker, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, February 21, 2011

Will that be red or black?

Male Northern Flickers sport either red or black moustachial stripes. There's a Yellow-shafted group with a red nape, gray crown, tan face, yellow under wings and tail and a black moustache on the male. There's a Red-shafted group with a gray nape, brown crown, gray face, reddish under wings and tail and a red moustache on the male.

Night camp

Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Walking the edge, I am. ...

... On some days breathing, eating and not folding into a ball in a corner is all I can manage. I had a few of those days in the past three weeks. It reminds me, in ways I do not like to be reminded, just how damaged I really am.

Like a character from the television show "Cheers" once said, "It's a dog eat dog world out there - and I'm wearing milkbone underwear."

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