Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 7:20 AM Temperature: 43 degrees Sky: Sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Gadwalls, Wood Ducks, Black-necked Stilts, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, Starlings, Ospreys, Northern Flickers, American Kestrels, Doves, Great Horned Owls, American Robins, Red-winged Blackbirds, Blue Jays, Turkey Vultures, Sparrows, Killdeer, Red-tailed HawkCritters: Tree Squirrels, Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs Gear: OM System OM-1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 8:10 AM Temperature: 44 degrees Sky: Sunny. Sightings:Birds: Pied-billed Grebes, Wood Ducks, Gadwalls, Mallards, Blue-winged Teals, Black-necked Stilts, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Double Crested Cormorants, American Kestrel, American Robins, Cooper’s Hawk, White-crowned Sparrows, Townsend’s Solitaire, Northern Flicker, Belted KingfisherCritters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dog, Cabbage White Butterfly, Butterflies Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 44 degrees Sky: Clouds and Sun. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Wood Ducks, American Coot, Pied-billed Grebe, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Kestrel, American Robin, European Starlings, Swallows, Mourning Doves, Double-crested Cormorants, Red-breasted Mergansers, Northern Flicker, Gulls, Sparrows, Blue Jays, Black-necked Stilts, Red-tailed Hawk, Cooper’s Hawks, Black-capped Chickadee, Downy Woodpecker, MagpieCritters: Tree Squirrels, Mule Deer Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm Today’s bottom mini-gallery needs a little extra explanation. I was watching a pair of Cooper’s Hawks working on their nest and one of them flew to a perch close by my location. S/He grabbed a…
Environment:Start Time: 10:15 AM Temperature: 39 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine, light breeze Even though conditions were nowhere near ideal today’s walk was amazingly successful. Many of the nests I am watching were active and there were several new visitors enjoying the Arkansas River. The second half of my tour was the most productive in terms of photography. A Snowy Egret (today’s featured image) allowed me to get pretty close. A little later I saw two Red-tailed Hawks reeling high over the park – not sure if this was courtship or just recreation but I have posted one of the…