Environment:
Start Time: 7:55 AM Temperature: 43 degrees Sky: Sunshine few clouds with occasional breeze.
Clear and crisp once again this morning. The wind kept me home yesterday and at first I thought it had blown all the birds away. They eventually came out to play. Today’s featured image is one of the nesting Cooper’s Hawks who thought it could avoid being on the Internet by simply flying away – wrong. The images posted in the center of this edition are all of the same Osprey who was enjoying its breakfast well up on a treetop. Eventually other of its kind spotted the food and they drove him/her from its perch. The bottom of the post has some of the ducks who were cruising the Arkansas River. I think a Gadwall and a Mallard.
Osprey having a new friend for breakfast at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado April 24, 2022 
Osprey taking breakfast out at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado April 24, 2022
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Gadwalls, Wood Ducks, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robin, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, White-crowned Sparrows, Mourning Doves, Turkey Vultures, Northern Flicker, Killdeer, Red-tailed Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Swallows
Critters: Tree Squirrels, Butterfly
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Identified by Google as Gadwall Ducks at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado I believe the one in the foreground is a Mallard hen. April 24, 2022