Birds Sightings Wildflowers Wildlife
April 19, 2023

April 19, 2023

Environment:Start Time: 7:45 AM Temperature: 52 degrees Sky: Clouds and sunshine with varying breeze. Sightings:Birds: Pied-billed Grebes, Mallards, Wood Ducks, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Double Crested Cormorants, American Kestrels, American Robins, Cooper’s Hawk, White-crowned Sparrows, Wrens, Northern Flicker, Belted Kingfisher, Mourning Doves, Blue Jay, Red-breasted Mergansers, Hairy Woodpecker, Red-tailed Hawk, Violet-green Swallows, Say’s Phoebe, Canyon Towhee, CrowsCritters: Mule Deer, Prairie Dog, Tree Squirrels, Cabbage White Butterfly Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm

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Birds Critters Sightings Wildlife
May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022

Environment:Start Time: 7:45 AM Temperature: 45 degrees Sky: Sunshine with varying breeze Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, Western Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Barn Swallows, Violet-green Swallows, Cooper’s Hawk, Bullock’s Oriole, Blue Jay, Northern Flicker, Wren, Great Blue HeronCritters: Mule Deer, Tree Squirrels Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
May 23, 2022

May 23, 2022

Environment:Start Time: 8:45 AM Temperature: 47 degrees Sky: Cloudy to start – Sunshine at the end. Sightings:Birds: Wood Ducks, Mallards, Canada Geese, Osprey, American Robins, European Starlings, Double-crested Cormorants, Gray Catbird, Western Kingbirds, Mourning Doves, Barn Swallows, Violet-green Swallows, American Kestrel, Western Wood Pewee, Bullock’s Oriole, White-breasted NuthatchCritters: Red Ants Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm

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Birds Landscapes Sightings Wildlife
April 25, 2022

April 25, 2022

Environment:Start Time: 8:05 AM Temperature: 38 degrees Sky: Sunshine few clouds with biting breeze. Today’s featured image (above) is just a sample of the snow that greeted me this morning in Rock Canyon. This is my favorite kind of snow – it falls overnight and is mostly melted by morning. The big activity today has to center around the Swallows that were swarming the Arkansas River. Just below are my attempts to capture them on my memory card. The results are at least good enough to make a positive ID – Violet-green Swallows. The mini-gallery at the bottom of this…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
May 12, 2021

May 12, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 10:50 AM Temperature: 47 degrees Sky: Overcast with a light breeze A long lasting miserable pattern of wet/cold weather is finally starting to move out of the area. Not a minute too soon, either. I had to wait a little longer than usual for the temperature to hit tolerable levels (and I was hoping for the Sun to break out) but I did make it out to Lake Pueblo State Park for a long walk. The stars of today’s post are the hundreds of Swallows – Violet-green and Barn – that were swarming over the Arkansas River. I…

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