Environment:
Start Time: 7:15 AM Temperature: 58 degrees Sky: Mostly cloudy.
Back to gloom with another cloudy morning. Like the light, activity at Lake Pueblo State Park was very subdued. The Arkansas River is still quite high so no humans were out fishing and the feathery fishermen weren’t showing much interest either. Today’s featured image is a Double-crested Cormorant taking its leave of a group of Canada Geese and Mallards that it had been hanging out with. Betty and Barney, the two Barn Swallows, were minding their nest in the Kiosk by the Anticline Fishing Pond – this is their third nest this year – the first two having been destroyed by I don’t know what. They’re small but tenacious.
Barn Swallow patiently sitting the nest at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado June 09, 2022
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, American Yellow Warbler, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorant, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Bullock’s Orioles, Swallows, Barn Swallows, House Wren, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbirds
Critters: Mule Deer, Ornate Tree Lizard, Tree Squirrel
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Red-winged Blackbird at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado June 09, 2022 
Brown-headed Cowbird lurking in the shadows at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado June 09, 2022 
Double Crested Cormorant concentrating on lift off at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado June 09, 2022