May 16, 2022

Very quiet in general this morning at Lake Pueblo State Park. Not many park visitors or residents visible. The Arkansas River is running pretty high (and fast) so not many people fishermen (fishermen who are people) are willing to fight the current. I only saw four Wood Duck drakes out there, too. A couple of Canada Geese were watching their one gosling forage in the rising Spring foliage rather than trying it on the river. The only Osprey activity is pictured here – an adult bringing more nesting material home. Today’s featured image is a New Bird for me – a Yellow-breasted Chat. A well named bird – both for color reasons and the fact that this one was quite chatty. One of my spotters alerted me to the location of a Killdeer nest so I had to go check it out. I looked around but was not able to locate my target – but I did run into the nest owners who worked very hard to lure me away from the nest – wherever it was. I did not press my search because I could see that I was stressing these poor parents to be too much.