Environment:
Start Time: 6:50 AM Temperature: 65 degrees Sky: Cloudy to start – Sunny at the end.
Today’s walk started out cloudy but cool and ended sunny and a little too warm. The temperature raised close to ten degrees over the course of the outing. Not a lot was going on. Today’s featured image is a Common Merganser couple who have been haunting a shallow spot on the Arkansas River for the last week. Otherwise the river is still used by only the brave at heart. One Osprey teased me by hovering over the river but it never made a strike. The bottom of the post today is a couple of younger Mule Deer – a doe and a buck. I’m assuming both are last year’s crop and both were still traveling with their moms.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Wood Ducks, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robin, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, Western Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Wild Turkeys, Swallows, Yellow-breasted Chat, Wrens, Common Grackles, Cooper’s Hawk, Blue Jay, Northern Flicker
Critters: Mule Deer, Cabbage White Butterflies
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Young Mule Deer doe rushing to catch up with mom at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado June 18, 2022 
Young Mule Deer buck at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado June 18, 2022