Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 3:40 PM Temperature: 63 degrees Sky: Sunny. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Ring-billed Gulls, White-crowned Sparrows, Great Horned Owls, HawkCritters: Grasshoppers, White-tailed Deer Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 7:10 AM Temperature: 60 degrees Sky: Sunny. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Starlings, Flycatchers, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, Common Sandpiper, Belted Kingfisher, Killdeer, Woodpecker, Common GrackleCritters: Grasshoppers, Prairie Dogs, Tree Squirrel, Pinacate Beetle, Mule Deer Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 10:25 AM Temperature: 58 degrees Sky: Mix of Sun and clouds, light breeze Spring-like weather is persisting and will so for most of the week ahead. Local weather forecasters are promising us a snowy Saturday. Not at all unusual weather for March in Southeastern Colorado. Birds are still playing hard to get but activity is picking up. I could hear a number of unfamiliar bird calls and a couple of recognizable (by me) ones. There were Blue Jays about to be sure. I also heard a Belted Kingfisher. Aside from using my zoom lens to ID some of…
Environment:Start Time: 1:50 PM Temperature: 41 degrees Sky: Sunny, clear, light breeze After a long three day pause the weather finally seemed inviting enough to take a turn at Lake Pueblo State Park. Despite the (I hope) seasonal scarcity of birds I had a couple strokes of good luck capturing birds in flight. The luck can be largely credited to my choice of the Nikon D5100 for the camera du jour. That Belted Kingfisher (today’s featured image) that has been tormenting me of late finally made it onto my memory card as he took flight. A little later I spent…
Environment:Start Time: 1:10 PM Temperature: 42 degrees Sky: Sunny, clear, light breeze What was supposed to be cold snowy day turned out to be a spectacular day for a walk and some casual birding. Though the birds were not totally on board with this feeling I did manage to get a few shots in. I had a real good shot at a distant Cooper’s Hawk but came up with a fuzzy mess. I’m still trying to figure out getting good focus on distant subjects – gonna keep trying. The other disappointment of the day came at the wings of a…