Birds Sightings Wildflowers Wildlife
June 27, 2022

June 27, 2022

Environment:Start Time: 9:20 AM Temperature: 60 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine. Today’s late start resulted from the initial lack of decent light this morning. Things finally took a turn for the better (light-wise) so I did make a go of it. Once again there was not an overwhelming amount of avian activity. Today’s featured image is one of two bird shots that I got – an Orchard Oriole. After that it was bugs or flowers. Below are a couple of Bugs AND Flower shots that I am pretty happy with. The bottom of this post has three blooming plants that…

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Birds Critters Landscapes Sightings Wildlife
July 08, 2021

July 08, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 7:10 AM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Sunny with a welcome breeze Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Starlings, Osprey, Barn Swallows, Cormorants, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbird, American Robins, Canada Geese, Red-winged Blackbird, Northern Flicker, American Kestrel, Common Grackle, Green Heron, Mississippi KiteCritters: Cabbage Butterfly, Prairie Dogs, Widow Skimmer, Mule Deer Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
July 07, 2021

July 07, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 7:35 AM Temperature: 65 degrees Sky: Sunny with a welcome breeze Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Starlings, Osprey, Swallows, Barn Swallows, Cormorants, Western Kingbird, American Robins, Canada Geese, Red-winged Blackbird, Oriole, Northern Flicker, Blue Jay, American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Common Grackle, Turkey VultureCritters: Cabbage Butterfly, Prairie Dogs, Dragonfly, Grasshopper Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm

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Birds Sightings Wildflowers Wildlife
July 02, 2021

July 02, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 7:50 AM Temperature: 63 degrees Sky: Heavy clouds with light breeze Very gloomy this morning at Lake Pueblo State Park. It rained yesterday evening and into the overnight hours leaving everything wet. Very wet. Even the air was wet – humidity in the 80% range. Considering the conditions I can’t hold it against all my bird buddies for just hunkering down. I photographed only two birds on this outing. Today’s featured image (above) is a rare sighting of an Orchard Oriole. Below is a Hairy Woodpecker doing his thing. The thing about these two photos is that I…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
June 06, 2020

June 06, 2020

An oddly overcast morning made me decide to skip today’s outing altogether. But my loyal and pesky dog, Whisper, was not hearing of it! He essentially demanded that I take him for his walk. So we got going on the trail around 6:30 in 60 degree temps and really lousy light. Since the sky looked so gloomy I elected to go out with only my 55-200mm lens. That turned out to be not such a great decision. On the trail section of our walk that is close to the Arkansas River I spotted a Great Horned Owl pretty far into…

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