September 28, 2023

Environment:Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Bright sunshine with a few clouds. Sightings:Birds: Ducks, Mallards, Wood Ducks, Canada Geese, Gulls, Ospreys, Double Crested Cormorants, Starlings, Killdeer, Northern Flickers, Blue Jay, Great Blue Heron, Common Grackles, Snowy Egret, Mourning Doves, WoodpeckerCritters: Cabbage White Butterflies, Tarantula, Prairie Dogs, Mule Deer, millions of flying bugs, Tree Squirrel, Painted Lady Butterfly Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight

October 03, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 8:10 AM Temperature: 46 degrees Sky: Wildfire haze filtered sunshine Nice and crisp this morning under a cloudless sky. The horizons all around were orange tinged with wildfire haze but the upper levels were a definite blue. Pikes Peak was not visible as I drove into the park. Though many birds were visible, today’s group had an uncanny knack for landing on branches behind other branches that obscured my view of them. It happened so often that it simply had to be intentional. I have been hoping to get a shot of a Tarantula over the last couple…