Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 7:30 AM Temperature: 37 degrees Sky: Sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Gadwalls, Gulls, Starlings, Ospreys, Crows, Northern Flickers, Belted Kingfishers, White-crowned Sparrows, Wild Turkeys, American Robins, Great Blue Heron, Western GrebeCritters: Prairie Dogs Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm; Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 7:05 AM Temperature: 54 degrees Sky: Pretty cloudy to start big improvement later. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Cinnamon Teals, Double Crested Cormorants, Gulls, Canada Geese, Ospreys, Starlings, Great Blue Herons, Northern Flickers, Killdeer, Belted Kingfishers, Redheaded Woodpeckers, Red-winged BlackbirdsCritters: Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, Prairie Dogs, Tree Squirrel, millions of flying bugs Gear: Nikon D5600, Nikkor 55-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 5:50 AM Temperature: 48 degrees Sky: Hazey sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Common Mergansers, Eastern Kingbird, Western Kingbirds, Double Crested Cormorants, Great Blue Herons, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Northern Flickers, Doves, Turkey Vulture, Barn Swallows, Bullock’s OriolesCritters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs Gear: Olympus OM-1 E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm; Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 8:45 AM Temperature: 39 degrees Sky: Sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Common Goldeneye, Gulls, Great Blue Herons, House Wren, Belted Kingfishers, American Kestrels, Wild Turkeys, Killdeer, Dark-eyed Juncos, White-crowned Sparrows, Cooper’s Hawk, RavenCritters: Mule Deer Gear: Nikon D5600, Nikon AF-S 55-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 9:00 AM Temperature: 51 degrees Sky: Sunshine, heavy breeze and clouds. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Common Goldeneye, Hooded Mergansers, Gulls, Northern Flicker, Canada Geese, Red-tailed Hawk, Sparrows, Belted KingfisherCritters: Prairie Dogs Gear: Nikon D5600, Nikon AF-S 55-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 3:05 PM Temperature: 70 degrees Sky: Sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Gulls, Starlings, White-crowned Sparrows, Northern Flicker, Killdeer, Belted Kingfisher, Great Horned Owl, Great Blue Heron, American Kestrel, Wild TurkeysCritters: Prairie Dogs Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 6:50 AM Temperature: 50 degrees Sky: Competing sunshine and clouds. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Mallard, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Double Crested Cormorants, Mourning Doves, Western Kingbirds, Red-tailed Hawk, American Robins, Cooper’s Hawk, Barn Swallows, Swallows, Blue Jays, Northern FlickersCritters: Mule Deer, Tree Squirrels, Prairie Dog Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 2:35 PM Temperature: 66 degrees Sky: Sunshine and Clouds I decided on an afternoon walk today after my phone’s weather app told me it would be “Sunny”. That was mostly right but a heavy cloud bank in the southwest muffled the light for the second half of my walk. Really wasn’t a problem as there was not much to shoot. I did see one of the juvenile Bald Eagles but it was positioned such that the only clear shot would have been from the middle of the river. I stayed dry. The Red-tailed Hawk I saw was circling…
Environment:Start Time: 9:15 AM Temperature: 52 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds and light breeze Check out last year’s walk on this day here. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Gulls, Canada Geese, Northern Flicker, Red-tailed Hawks, Pied-billed Grebe, American Kestrel, Sparrows, Gadwalls, Great Blue HeronCritters: Prairie Dogs, Tree Squirrels, Coyote Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300MM