Environment:
Start Time: 7:10 AM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Haze/Cloud filtered sunshine.
Autumn is starting to get into gear at Lake Pueblo State Park. The leaves are remaining stubbornly green but some of the Fall/Winter visitors are starting to arrive. Featured is a Hooded Merganser – I’m not sure if this is a juvenile or an adult (female?) but I have two sources confirming the ID. I only saw one of these. Also spotted were a Townsend’s Solitaire and two Dark-eyed Juncos. Surprisingly, I saw two Osprey still working the river – one pictured below having some success. Pictured here is a Mule Deer Doe stepping out of the brush to have a look at the Arkansas River.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Hooded Merganser, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, Gulls, Starlings, Great Blue Herons, Northern Flickers, Killdeer, Belted Kingfishers, Blue Jays, Common Grackle, Ospreys, Townsend’s Solitaire, Dark-eyed Juncos, Red-tailed Hawks, American Kestrel, Cooper’s Hawk, Crow
Critters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs, Grasshoppers, Cottontail Rabbit, thousands of flying bugs
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm; Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
