Environment:
Start Time: 6:55 AM Temperature: 50 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine.
No wind this morning so I managed to hit the trail to celebrate the last day of May. There was plenty of bird chatter (one Yellow-breasted Chat) and activity but not many of my feathered friends felt like posing for immortalization. The Arkansas River is higher than it was Sunday and I only saw a few Canada Geese (no goslings) and one Mallard out on the water. Below is a goose who seems unhappy with the water level on one of the river’s, normally dry, sand islands. The mini-gallery below is a couple of Eastern Kingbirds shots – one nesting and the other on the hunt. The featured image up top is one of the many Osprey who seemed content to be floating high above it all.
Canada Goose standing on a submerged sandy island on the Arkansas River at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 31, 2022
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorant, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Bullock’s Orioles, Northern Flicker, Blue Jays, Yellow-breasted Chat
Critters: Mule Deer
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Eastern Kingbird perched in the open space at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 31, 2022 
Eastern Kingbird displaying its nesting material at Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado May 31, 2022