Environment:
Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 61 degrees Sky: Wildfire haze filtered sunshine.
They must have been having a Hawk Festival out at Lake Pueblo State Park today. There were, of course, lots of other kinds of birds but they just didn’t have a chance to make today’s post with all the hawk-like birds I captured . The Cooper’s Hawk occupying the featured image spot (top) got there simply by showing up – haven’t gotten to shoot one for some time. The Osprey were certainly busy either fishing, chasing each other around or chasing Red-tailed Hawks away. I also managed to get a new bird – the Prairie Falcon pictured here. Certainly not the best photo I’ve ever taken but for a crow sized bird around eighty yards away – not bad.
Sightings:
Birds: Ducks, Mallards, Blue-winged Teals, Ring-billed Gulls, Spotted Sandpipers, Killdeer, Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons, Ospreys, Double Crested Cormorants, Starlings, Prairie Falcon, Red-winged Blackbirds, Belted Kingfisher, Barn Swallows, Cooper’s Hawk
Critters: Cabbage White Butterflies, Prairie Dogs, Grasshoppers, millions of flying bugs
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
