Sightings
January 08, 2021 – Re-post

January 08, 2021 – Re-post

Environment:Start Time: 1:45 PM Temperature: 45 degrees Sky: Sunny, few clouds, mild breeze Weather and health continue to present challenges here in 2024. Here is what I posted on this day in 2021. Things haven’t changes that much. I had to make it out to Lake Pueblo State Park this afternoon because the weather folks on local TV are saying tomorrow starts and stays cold with a snowfall finale. Not that you could tell that by conditions out today – fantastic weather. Once again the birds were playing hard to get. Plenty of ducks (and a Pied-billed Grebe) to keep…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
January 08, 2021

January 08, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 1:45 PM Temperature: 45 degrees Sky: Sunny, few clouds, mild breeze I had to make it out to Lake Pueblo State Park this afternoon because the weather folks on local TV are saying tomorrow starts and stays cold with a snowfall finale. Not that you could tell that by conditions out today – fantastic weather. Once again the birds were playing hard to get. Plenty of ducks (and a Pied-billed Grebe) to keep me occupied, though. Captures for today include the featured image of a Song Sparrow (above) and the aforementioned Grebe. I spotted a group of Bufflehead…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
January 04, 2021

January 04, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 1:15 PM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Sunny, few clouds, mild breeze Ideal conditions prevailed today at Lake Pueblo State Park. Wind was not an issue while the light was fantastic. Not many birds chose to pose in the good light for me, though. There were fewer fishermen in the river but far more people out walking their dogs and riding their bikes – two guys were even out there on horseback. I took a shot of a large group of Ducks in the Arkansas river – mostly Goldeneye and I think possibly some Bufflehead which is today’s featured…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
December 30, 2020

December 30, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 2:35 AM Temperature: 44 degrees Sky: Sunshine, light breeze Things are finally warming up around here allowing me to take an afternoon walk. There was a bit of bird activity today but not as much cooperation. I had a good chance to get a smallish Cooper’s Hawk but rather than just take the shot I had – I tried to make a camera setting change which, apparently, was the same idea my intended subject had because he decided to change where he was setting and flew away. You’d think I would learn. I saw a Belted Kingfisher (across…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife

December 26, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 10:40 AM Temperature: 57 degrees Sky: Sunshine, light breeze Another fantastic day for a stroll in the park. Since the bird population has been down of late leaving the options to ducks or juncos I decided to concentrate on ducks this morning. Not only that – I decided it would be a good day to try out the video on the GH4. So with tripod in hand I pulled into the parking lot on the South side of the river and headed downriver to see what I could capture. Two of today’s videos are posted below. Not the…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
December 22, 2020

December 22, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 10:30 AM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Sunshine, light breeze Weather is still allowing me to make it out in the mornings and today that was important because more wind is in the forecast to be followed by a cold snap. I managed to do the full two mile tour today with few stops for photography. There was a bigger variety of subjects today but none too cooperative. Today’s featured image is of what I believe is a Gadwall Duck. There were around five of them paddling around in the Arkansas River making easy targets for one desperate photographer….

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