Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 6:30 AM Temperature: 61 degrees Sky: Sunny. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Osprey, Common Sandpiper, Starlings, Mourning Doves, Canada Geese, Cooper’s Hawk, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Blue Grosbeak, American Yellow Warbler, Great Blue Heron, Eastern Kingbird, House WrensCritters: Grasshoppers, Mule Deer, Dragonflies Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 5:55 PM Temperature: 70 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds with little breeze. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Blue-winged Teal, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robin, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, Turkey Vulture, Great Blue Heron, Red-tailed HawksCritters: Raccoon Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 3:30 PM Temperature: 58 degrees Sky: Sunshine with a strong breeze. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Canada Geese, Osprey, Red-tailed Hawks, Northern Flickers, Pied-billed Grebe, Double-crested Cormorants, White-crowned Sparrows, Great Blue Heron, Yellow-rumped WarblersCritters: None Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 3:15 PM Temperature: 35 degrees Sky: Sunshine light breeze. A severe case of Cabin Fever forced me out to Lake Pueblo State Park this afternoon. The temperature was below what I have in the past considered walkable but I bundled up and headed out. There wasn’t a lot going on out there – only one person fishing on the fishing pond and I only counted three or four stalwarts on the Arkansas River. Most birds that I saw were keeping their distance as demonstrated by the Hawk pictured here. He was too far away to make even an…
Environment:Start Time: 2:30 PM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine little breeze Clouds were muting the sunlight this afternoon but I ventured out just the same. Really good walking weather all in all. Lake Pueblo State Park was not as busy – people-wise – today. Also bird-wise. But I still managed to get a great shot of a Great Blue Heron in flight (featured image) and a shot of the same bird moments before he decided to launch into the sky. Of course, the reason he launched was because I was trying to get even closer than I already…
Environment:Start Time: 3:25 PM Temperature: 42 degrees Sky: Clouds, sunshine and a breeze A potentially terrific day for walking and birding was severely damaged by a wickedly cold “breeze”. From the bright sunshine and limited cloud cover it looked perfect but it was really worse than yesterday. I set out to try shooting some video of birds on the Arkansas River but it was too cold to sit still so I did a short walk instead. There was a little action to be seen. I saw three or four Great Blue Herons and a couple of Northern Flickers who were…
Environment:Start Time: 3:35 PM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Cloud-filtered sunshine Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Common Goldeneye, Gulls, Canada Geese, Starlings, American Robin, White-crowned Sparrows, Belted Kingfisher, Red-tailed Hawk, Merlin(?), Sharp-shinned Hawk, Great Blue HeronCritters: Mule Deer Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 3:20 PM Temperature: 51 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine. Mornings remain quite chilly so I’m sticking to later afternoon walks. Not to say that these afternoons are wildly toasty. When I walk in the mornings I often start out dressed warmly and end my walk quite overheated. Now days I start out dressed lightly and as the Sun sinks I get less and less comfortable. Other than that ,things are not changing much day to day. I keep hoping to run across an Egret or an Eagle or something else more exciting than Mallards. Today’s featured image is…
Environment:Start Time: 9:10 AM Temperature: 61 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine, moderate wind. Check out last year’s walk on this day here I didn’t realize how windy it was this morning when I left the house so conditions at Lake Pueblo were kind of a surprise. The wind, though warm, was quite annoying. I ended up cutting today’s tour down to just a mile because there was not much happening other than leaves blowing all around. It’s kind of funny that last year on this day (November 13, 2020) I complained about the wind as well and only got one…
Environment:Start Time: 7:45 AM Temperature: 53 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds and light breeze. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Osprey, Double Crested Cormorant, Canada Geese, Starlings, Great Blue Heron, Northern Flicker, Red-winged Blackbird, Gulls, Common Grackle, KilldeerCritters: Prairie Dogs, Tree Squirrel, Monarch Butterfly, Mule Deer Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm