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…

June 03, 2020

Nothing but sunshine at Lake Pueblo State Park this morning. We started our short walk at 6:20 in a warmish 57 degree temperature. Practically no breeze to speak of and even though I was wearing only a single layer of clothing by the time I finished walking today I had worked up a bit of a sweat. With ideal shooting conditions all around me I encountered very few photo opportunities. As far as casual birding goes – only a single Flicker presented himself as a target for my camera and he was none too close. I did run across another…