An oddly foggy morning kept us in early this morning. Skipping today would have meant missing a fourth walk in a row so I finally decided to venture out at 9:40 in clearing skies and a temperature approaching 70. Lake Pueblo State Park was much busier at this “late” hour than what we are used to. The extra folks and the warmish temperature made me limit the walk to just the dog-walking part.
Even though the walk was shorter than normal I still managed to get a peak at the Osprey nest and the Heron nest – both of which were unoccupied. There were a number of Osprey reeling about high up in the sky and, therefore, not image fodder. I did see what I believe to be two (or maybe three) Cooper’s Hawks. They also were either too active or too high up in the trees to be recorded. But I did see one of the birds fly by with breakfast in hand – I think it was a squirrel or some other small rodent. So that was it. I did take one shot of the Arkansas River (today’s featured image) looking upstream where some of the fire damaged trees are still standing.
Sightings:
Birds: Osprey, Quail, Cooper’s Hawk (possible)
Critters: Mule Deer
Gear: Nikon Lumix GX-85, 45mm Macro