March 20, 2025

Environment:Start Time: 8:15 AM Temperature: 21 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Pied-billed Grebes, Gulls, Gadwalls, Buffleheads, Mallards, Double Crested Cormorant, Canada Geese, Starlings, American Robins, Ospreys, Northern Flickers, Great Horned Owl, White-crowned Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, Merlin, Red-tailed Hawk, Wild Turkeys, Western Meadowlarks, Blue Jays, Bluebird, Belted Kingfisher, Cooper’s Hawk, Tree Swallows, MagpieCritters: Prairie Dogs, Tree Squirrels KINGSYARD HEAVY DUTY METAL MESH BIRD FEEDER Gear: OM System OM-1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight

December 22, 2021 Re-post

Life threatening cold is keeping me off the trail. Here is a rerun of last year’s walk – quite a contrast of temperatures! 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

October 10, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 49 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds, light breeze A steady ridge of high pressure hanging over Colorado provided another stellar day for photography and hiking. Of course, the environment is still hazy thanks to those pesky northern wildfires though it was not so bad this morning. Pikes Peak is still not visible. On the bright side, birds and Mule Deer were very visible. Today’s featured image is of a Flicker who had perched nearby while I was trying to capture an image of a Dark-Eyed Junco. I settled for the more cooperative Flicker. But the…