Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 7:15 AM Temperature: 59 degrees Sky: Sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Canada Geese, Ospreys, Mourning Doves, Double Crested Cormorants, Peregrine Falcon, Blue Jays, Red-winged Blackbirds, Starlings, Northern Flicker, Great Horned Owl, Wild Turkeys, Cooper’s Hawk, Blue GrosbeakCritters: Cabbage White Butterflies, Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs, Tree Squirrels, Grasshoppers, Mosquitoes, Monarch Butterfly Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight
Environment:Start Time: 9:20 AM Temperature: 52 degrees Sky: Sunshine. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Back on the birding beat this morning. Today started out on the cool side so I held back a while longer to let things warm up a bit which happened quickly since there were no clouds and little breeze. Once again the birds were keeping their distance. The bird that I got closest to today is the featured image (above) of (big surprise) a Great Blue Heron. My other two “close ups” are the pair of American Kestrels posted below. No comes the…