Environment:
Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 59 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine with increasing breeze.
Conditions this morning, though warmer, were not as good as yesterday. The high, thin clouds really put a damper on the morning light. Even so, I managed to come up with some captures worth posting. Today’s featured image is a highly cooperative Brown-crested Flycatcher. I noticed that the Cottonwood trees are sprouting their cotton and it looks like there will be a good crop this year. Except for the diving Osprey pictured below all my other bird captures were perched. That Osprey, in case you are wondering, did not complete its strike, pulling up at the last second.
Osprey starts a dive at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 27, 2022
Sightings:
Birds: Wood Ducks, Mallards, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, Western Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Swallows, Bullock’s Orioles, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Northern Flicker, House Wren, Mississippi Kite, Cooper’s Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird
Critters: Rock Squirrel, Mule Deer
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
House Wren singing at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 27, 2022 
Red-winged Blackbird disturbing the peace at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 27, 2022 
Mississippi Kite greeting the morning at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 27, 2022