Environment:
Start Time: 7:25 AM Temperature: 39 degrees Sky: Sunshine and haze.
Pleasant conditions and very few other humans made today’s tour of Rock Canyon quite pleasant. Featured today is a little Bufflehead hen who was showing her stuff on the Arkansas River. There were quite a few Mule Deer roaming about. I caught the young buck pictured below moving confidently through the open space. Also pictured is a Townsend’s Solitaire. I was delighted to find two of the local long-legged waders actually wading in the fishing pond. These two Great Blue Herons were pretty active by heron standards though, sadly, they kept moving away from me.
Sightings:
Birds: Pied-billed Grebes, Mallards, Green-winged Teal, Hooded Mergansers, Common Goldeneye, Buffleheads, Gulls, Townsend’s Solitaire, Northern Flickers, Dark-eyed Juncos, White-crowned Sparrows, Starlings, Belted Kingfisher, Red-winged Blackbird, American Robins, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Wild Turkeys, Great Blue Herons
Critters: Tree Squirrels, Mule Deer
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
