Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 5:55 AM Temperature: 49 degrees Sky: Mostly sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Western Kingbirds, Double Crested Cormorants, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Doves, Blue Jays, Barn Swallows, Bullock’s Orioles, Common Grackles, American Robins, Red-winged Blackbirds, Barn SwallowsCritters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs Gear: Nikon D5600, AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm; Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
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: 10:50 AM Temperature: 47 degrees Sky: Overcast with a light breeze A long lasting miserable pattern of wet/cold weather is finally starting to move out of the area. Not a minute too soon, either. I had to wait a little longer than usual for the temperature to hit tolerable levels (and I was hoping for the Sun to break out) but I did make it out to Lake Pueblo State Park for a long walk. The stars of today’s post are the hundreds of Swallows – Violet-green and Barn – that were swarming over the Arkansas River. I…
I have long considered the Mourning Dove, the most abundant type of bird in America, to be nothing more than a Pigeon. This is why I was not including them in the Sightings section of my hiking blog posts nor have I ever photographed them at all. Well, I have recently done some reading and it seems that, though Mourning Doves are Pigeon like, they are somehow not Pigeons. Therefore, I have begun (in Mid May 2020) to include them in the list of bird sightings in my posts. If I see a full blooded Pigeon you will never hear…