Environment:
Start Time: 6:40 AM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Sunny.
Not a lot going on this morning at Lake Pueblo State Park though the Arkansas River’s falling water level is attracting more fishermen. There was a lot of bird activity but very few volunteers for Internet fame. I accidentally flushed out a pair of twin fawns and got a decent shot of one of them. Today’s featured image is also another critter – a Monarch Butterfly sampling one of the Wild Sunflowers that dot the park. The only birds that I managed (with some effort) to capture are in the mini-gallery at the bottom of this post. The Cooper’s Hawk is the only one of the siblings that I saw or heard and it was perched very high up in the trees. I think the family is breaking up.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Osprey, Eastern Kingbirds, Starlings, Mourning Doves, Canada Geese, Double Crested Cormorants, Cooper’s Hawk, Great Blue Heron, Common Grackle, Chipping Sparrow, White-breasted Nuthatch, belted Kingfisher, Lesser Goldfinch, Spotted Sandpiper, House Wren
Critters: Cabbage White Butterflies, Grasshoppers, Mule Deer, Red Ants, Dragonflies, Monarch Butterfly
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
