April 25, 2024

Environment:Start Time: 6:15 AM Temperature: 46 degrees Sky: Hazy sunlight. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Wood Ducks, Blue-winged Teals, Double Crested Cormorants, Great Horned Owls, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, American Robins, American Kestrels, Northern Flickers, Doves, Common Grackles, Great Blue Herons, Wild Turkeys, Turkey Vultures, Blue Jays, Red-tailed Hawk, Green Heron (probable), Brown-headed Cowbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, White-crowned Sparrows, Woodpeckers, Say’s Phoebe, Spotted TowheeCritters: Mule Deer, Tree Squirrels, Prairie Dog, Wood Louse KINGSYARD HEAVY DUTY METAL MESH BIRD FEEDER Gear: Olympus OM-1 E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-400mm; Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight

September 25, 2022

Environment:Start Time: 8:00 AM Temperature: 53 degrees Sky: Sunny. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Red-winged Blackbirds, Double Crested Cormorants, Osprey, Killdeer, European Starlings, Northern Flickers, Great Blue Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Blue-winged Teal, Crows, Canada Geese, Turkey Vultures, Cooper’s Hawk, White-crowned Sparrows, Blue JaysCritters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs, Beetle, Cabbage White Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Tokina SZX 400mm

August 02, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 6:45 AM Temperature: 57 degrees Sky: Sun filtered by heavy wildfire haze. No breeze. Air Quality alert in effect. All I want is for a few different types of birds to land nearby in good light and look adorable. Is that too much to ask? I guess it was today – though with the heavy fire haze I can’t really blame the birds for staying in. I saw, briefly an OK variety of birds – the rarest of them what I believe to be a female Blue Grosbeak. The picture that I got was only good enough to…

June 23, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 6:35 AM Temperature: 69 degrees Sky: Cloud filtered sunshine with moderate breeze Sightings:Birds: Canada Geese, Mallards, Starlings, Osprey, Swallows, Barn Swallows, Mourning Doves, House Wren, Cormorants, Great Blue Heron, American Kestrel, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Blackbird, Blue Grosbeak, Turkey Vultures, Western Meadowlark, Redheaded WoodpeckerCritters: Cabbage Butterfly, Prairie Dogs, Squirrel, Mule Deer, Desert Stink Beetle Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm

June 02, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 7:30 AM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Sunshine and clouds with a light breeze The holiday weekend is long gone and the rain has let up so it was time to head out to Lake Pueblo State Park once again. Things were looking good out there and the mud was far less than I expected. On the birding front today was a bit different than usual. The Arkansas River is still quite high (because of the rain) so I only saw one Mallard, one Cormorant and two Common Mergansers out on the water. I ran across a group of…