Birds Sightings Wildlife
April 08, 2022

April 08, 2022

Environment:Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 35 degrees Sky: Bright Sunshine. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Wood Ducks, American Coot, Pied-billed Grebe, Gadwalls, Osprey, Red-winged Blackbird, American Kestrel, American Robin, Turkey Vultures, European Starlings, swallows, Mourning Doves, Double-crested Cormorants, Red-breasted Mergansers, Hooded Merganser, Black-capped Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Gulls, Red-tailed Hawk, BushtitsCritters: Tree Squirrels, Mule Deer Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm

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Birds Sightings Wildflowers Wildlife
April 12, 2021

April 12, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 9:35 AM Temperature: 40 degrees Sky: Sunny, light (cold) breeze Walking today would have been perfect except to the breeze zooming in from the East which packed a considerable chill. But the birds seemed unconcerned and were going about their business as usual. The osprey were active again today – not with nesting – but with fishing. The gallery below is a series of an Osprey hovering over the Arkansas River trying to spot his breakfast. He (unisex “He”) had made several unsuccessful attempts before I finally got there and while he was lining up a third attempt…

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Sightings

May 13, 2020

A cloudy start to the day made me delay until 8 this morning to get to Lake Pueblo State Park. The sun was trying to poke through and the temp was a tolerable 47 degrees. Not a lot of bird activity again today. I did catch sight of an American Kestrel high up in a tree who appeared to be having breakfast. Sadly, he was too far up for my piddly 200mm lens to capture. What I did get was a shot of a (mother?) Barn Swallow sitting in her nest – presumably on eggs – which is under the…

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Sightings

May 11, 2020

Once again we were on site at around 6:45 this morning. Not much sun but also not much of a breeze so the 43 degrees was quite tolerable. Like yesterday the birds were not in a mood to be photographed. There were plenty of Swallows buzz-bombing the Arkansas River so I decided to get a shot of one of the little devils in flight. I don’t know what got into me. My plan was to focus my camera on a spot in mid-river where the birds seemed to be having luck feeding and then just hold down my shutter release…

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