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Focus on Nevada Photo Contest Baird's Sandpiper

I Won! Focus on Nevada Photo Competition

This year I decided to enter Focus On Nevada’s annual photography contest. I submitted several photos on the wildlife category and I won FIRST PRIZE in the Nature Category with my image of a Baird’s Sandpiper. Another one of my photos, Desert Bighorn Sheep also received Honorable Mention. https://knpr.org/desert-companion/2023-05-30/11th-annual-focus-on-nevada-photo-contest I feel very thankful to be …

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Lucy's warbler

Lucy’s Warbler and the Power of Shooting in RAW

Lucy’s Warbler (Leiothlypis luciae) is the first warbler heard singing around Las Vegas in the spring.    In 1861, ornithologist and surgeon James Graham Cooper found Lucy’s Warbler along the lower Colorado River near Fort Mojave, Arizona—the site where present-day Arizona, California, and Nevada come together. Although many naturalists had traversed this region in previous …

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