Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 11:00 AM Temperature: 69 degrees Sky: Increasingly threatening clouds with some Sun Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Starlings, Osprey, Swallows, Barn Swallows, Mourning Doves, American Kestrel, Cormorants, Bullock’s Oriole, Northern Flicker, Red-winged Blackbird, Canada Geese, Green Heron, Western Kingbird, WrenCritters: Cabbage Butterfly, Prairie Dogs, Squirrel, Mule Deer, Butterfly (redish), Lizard, Dragonflies Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 8:30AM Temperature: 66 degrees Sky: Sun filtered by thick wildfire haze, light breeze Lately we southern Colorado residents have been treated to large quantities of wildfire smoke darkening our skies. Currently there are five fires burning in Colorado (North) and if that wasn’t enough smoke the jet stream is adding smoke from the countless fires consuming California. This situation has kept Whisper and I stuck indoors for the last couple of days. Cabin fever won out today and we waited until after 8 AM to venture out. Overall that turned out to be a good decision. The sky…