Courtship – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (Cobble Hill)

He has hopped up onto the fallen branch and turned so she gets the full effect — grey breast out, chestnut cap, the little black topknot curling over his beak like a question mark. She is a step below him on the same branch, quite calm about the whole performance.

The desert has come out in flower all round them: yellow blooms all over the prickly pear, pink and white through the sand, red ocotillo spikes overhead and a great spined cactus standing guard at the right!