Environment:
Start Time: 6:50 AM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Sunshine with few clouds.
After a few days off for a holiday trip I am back on the trail. Very warm and sunny – so much so that I found myself wishing for one of those breezes that I complained about in February. Lake pueblo State Park seems to have survived the Fourth of July in pretty good shape. The only Osprey action I saw came from a group of four Western Kingbirds driving one of the bigger birds from its perch over the Arkansas River. Pictured below is my first close-up fawn sighting. Actually there were two fawns but one of them was better at hiding than the other. Today’s featured image is what I think is a Juvenile Great Horned Owl. This one couldn’t take its eyes off of me. The same bird is also pictured in the mini-gallery at the post bottom.
Mule Deer doe teaching her fawn that photographers are bad at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado July 06, 2022
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Osprey, Common Starlings, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbird, Mourning Doves, Barn Swallow, House Wren, Common Grackle, Red-winged Blackbirds, American Robins, Common Merganser, Belted Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, Blue Jay, Canada Geese, Wood Ducks
Critters: Cabbage White Butterfly, Wood Louse, Dragon Flies, Tree Squirrel, Mule Deer
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Common Merganser on the Arkansas River at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado July 06, 2022 
Blue Jay out and about at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado July 06, 2022 
Great Horned Owl looking a little sleepy at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado July 06, 2022