Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 6:55 AM Temperature: 50 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine. 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 ChatCritters: Mule Deer Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 7:45 AM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Mallards, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorant, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Bullock’s Orioles, House Wren, Red-tailed Hawk, Redheaded WoodpeckerCritters: Beetle, Wood Louse, Mule Deer, Tree Squirrel Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 7:05 AM Temperature: 47 degrees Sky: Sunshine with little breeze. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Blue-winged Teal, Mallards, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, Yellow-rumbed Warbler, Bullock’s Orioles, Barn Swallows, Western Kingbird, Northern Flicker, Mourning Doves, Eastern Kingbird, Great Blue Herons, Wrens, Common Grackle, Turkey VulturesCritters: Tree Squirrels, Mule Deer, Red Ants, lots of flying bugs Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 7:10 AM Temperature: 62 degrees Sky: Sunshine, haze with increasing breeze. Another morning encased in wildfire haze. No air quality alerts which I don’t understand since Pikes Peak was not visible from Reservoir Road as I drove into Lake Pueblo State Park. Still not a lot of birds who seemed inclined to be photographed. I shot a lot of smaller birds but did not end up with anything really good. Most of these little guys only gave me one chance to make the capture. A Belted Kingfisher taunted me by landing on my side of the Arkansas River…
Environment:Start Time: 7:05 AM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Sun filtered by wildfire haze and few clouds. No breeze. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Osprey, Barn Swallows, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, Mourning Doves, American Kestrel, Eastern Kingbird, Great Blue Heron, Blue Jays, Sandpiper-like wader, Brown-headed Cowbird, Common GrackleCritters: Cabbage Butterfly, Prairie Dogs, Mule Deer w/ Fawns, Stink Beetle, Squirrel Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 53 degrees Sky: Sunshine few clouds with a light breeze Got out a little earlier today to nearly ideal conditions though the trails are still a little muddy. The Arkansas River was quite high again this morning. Only a couple of Mallards and a Wood Duck couple were brave enough to try their luck on the swift water. The geese were huddled in groups on the river’s edge keeping a wary eye on me as I slowly passed keeping a wary eye on them. I heard a lot of unfamiliar bird calls today but really…
Yet another calm sunny day in the low sixties this morning at Lake Pueblo State Park. Monday morning found very few people in the park at a little before 6:10. As luck would have it an Osprey was actively surveying the Anticline Fishing Pond as I started out on the second leg of today’s outing (the one with no doggie escort.) Which means I had the 300mm lens on the Nikon and I was ready to shoot. The Osprey seemed to be having trouble spotting his breakfast and soon abandoned the pond in favor of the Arkansas River. I was…