We started on our walk today around 6:10 in 57 degrees and the sun behind a low cloud bank in the East. No other clouds were poised to offer any further resistance to the sun with only a small amount of haze and a very light breeze. As I expected the sun cleared the clouds just as we arrived on the river bank. The park was oddly unpopulated this morning I assume because everyone was up late last night celebrating the Fourth of July.
Hungry, Hungry Herons
I, again, made sure to pass by the heron nest to see if anybody had taken flight yet but I found all three siblings still hanging around the nest. They were spread out over the tree branches so I couldn’t get a group shot. The two I did manage to photograph together were staring intently to the North. I have a feeling they were expecting their “Grubhub” style parental meal delivery to come from that direction. I hope it finally arrived.
Two other of our avian friends were willing to pose for me today. Today’s featured image (above) is a Flicker who was working over a cottonwood tree by the Anticline Fish Pond and stopped momentarily to give me a once-over. Below is a rather rare sighting for this area which I believe is a Mississippi Kite. This is the first one I have spotted at Lake Pueblo State Park. My only other sighting was from my front porch in town.
Sightings:
Birds: Starlings, Robins, Swallows, Barn Swallow, Osprey, Cormorants, Kingbirds, Canada Geese, Mallard Ducks, Oriole, Flicker, Mourning Doves, Blue Jay, Mississippi Kite, Great Blue Herons
Critters: Mule Deer
Gear: Nikon D5100, 55-200mm, 55-300mm
