Wednesday Wildlife

While trying to locate the loop trail descending from Navajo Peak to where our boats were tied off at the junction of the Rio Cebolla with the Rio Chama on May 31, I came across this male Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina).  It fluttered out of a rocky crevice onto the ground in front of me.  I don't know whether it was injured, still in a torpor, or (perhaps most likely) trying to divert me from its nest hidden in the rocks.  In any case, it simply lay there without objecting to my presence.  As you can see, the bird's coloring was quite spectacular.