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The desert island of Fuerteventura is strikingly green this winter.

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A male Centrocercus urophasianus (greater sage-grouse) at dawn trying to attract a female at a mating lek. They are known for filling giant air sacks in their chests and letting out a low thumping noise. They also strut around while doing the thumping call / display. It's kind of cute, in a strange way. They are extremely sensitive birds and you can't get very close without spooking them. This photo is cropped way in.

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A color landscape photo of a bird standing in dry yellow grass. The bird faces toward the camera angled toward the left. He is brown with white specks in the back, a large white fatty chest, and a dark brown head with short thin wire like protrusions sticking out. Its tail feathers from a short spiky fan in back.
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For #MountainMonday I have this excellent view from the summit of Pyramid Peak, photographed during a recent hike in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Anza Borrego Desert State Park.

That was ~8.5 miles/13.7 km out and back with a total elevation gain of 3045 feet/928 meters according to my fitness tracker... calves are still aching today... 😅

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A color landscape photo with an elevated view across a vast desert landscape. Mid-afternoon light from the right creates nice depth and structure. In the immediate foreground are big granitic rocks, the a ridge with rocks and small hardy shrubs. The ridge forms almost a mirrored S-shape, leading to a more distant and lower peak with eroded slopes. Beyond the peak lies a barren flat area, and all the way in the distance another mountain range. Some clouds hang in the sky over the distant mountains.

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South-east views from the summit of Pyramid Peak (P3500) in the Santa Rosa Mountains, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; January 2026.
Alexander S. Kunz
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Welp, I captured two shots of the tonight's big solar storm. The most intense part of the storm happened at my location before the sunset. The first shot below was shortly after sunset at Sand Mountain from a bit of a distance. It's an offroader's sand dune recreation area & it's $40 to go in. 🫤 And the second shot was at Harmon Reservoir a couple miles east of Fallon, Nevada. Nice to see some color this far south! 😍

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A color landscape photo of a red aurora over a sagebrush plain. In the distance is a large sand dune, but it looks small because of the wide-angle lens. There's lots of stars in the sky and lots of streaks of satellites reflection sunlight shortly after dusk.
A color landscape photo of a bit of aurora color over a lake with a few lights in the distance on the opposite shore. The aurora is reddish-green and is like a splash of color from center left widening and disappearing at the upper right. There's lots of stars in the sky and they are reflected in the dead still water of the lake. Tall bushes are along the shore on the far right.
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