Author: Amy Law
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Banded Garden Spider
Trigger Alert: We’re talking about spiders in this post. Pictures, too. But it is a very gentle spider. The spider in question is a banded garden spider in our raspberry patch. It showed up in late July (unfortunately, my camera card with those photos on it became corrupted), and my husband and I have been…
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2024 Pika Patrol, Part 2
After our pika hike south of Berthoud Pass last month, my husband and I did our second pika site for the Denver Zoo’s Pika Project last week, climbing up Halfmoon Creek on the southwest side of Mount Massive. We went up to the site a day early because rain, and at the higher altitudes, snow…
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2024 Pika Patrol
If it’s fall, it must be time to look for pika! As always, we are going out as part of the Colorado Pika Project, a Citizen Science project monitoring pika throughout the Colorado mountains. This is the meadow (11,598 feet) where we start our search for pika. They live in the rocks directly in front…
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Happy Dog Day!
From all of my dogs, past and present, to all of yours! Sasha Kurama Darwin Tegan and Zoe
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Sleeping Bees
Several years ago, I saw a charming photograph of two tiny bees curled up together, asleep, in a flower. Ever since then, I have been on a quest to photograph sleeping bees myself. (https://amylawscigeek.com/2021/08/08/sleeping-bees/) I’m not very good at identifying bees, but I think this is a honey bee. The reason I hesitate is because…
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Angry Cooper’s Hawk
My husband and I were working in the yard yesterday and heard what we thought was Northern flicker calling as it flew overhead. Reflexively glancing up to see the bird, I was startled to see not a flicker, but a hawk or very large falcon slicing through the sky, crying as it did so. Whipping…
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Ladybugs emerge
The East Coast has been inundated with two broods of cicadas. At my house, on the other hand, we’ve had an emergence of ladybugs. Ladybug larva are not among the prettiest creatures of the earth. At least one expert compared them to tiny alligators — grey with rough skin. But the larva gobble up soft-bodied…
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Update on the Northern Flicker Nest …
Several weeks ago, I posted some of my favorite nature photographs in honor Nature Photography Week https://amylawscigeek.com/2024/06/10/nature-photography-week-day-2/, including one of a Red-shafted Northern Flicker poking it’s head out of a hole in an crabapple tree. In that post, I said that the tree was often considered for a nest by Flickers, but never used, because…
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A Day Shooting Birds at The Reservoir
My friend and I took a walk around the reservoir today. Of course I took my camera. As a coming-out-of-covid present to myself, I bought a new, big lens a year ago. I do okay with it when it is on a tripod, but what fun is that? On the other hand, I’m still not…
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More Nature Photography …
Larkspur in a the foothills west of Denver, Colorado. Desert bighorn sheep along the Colorado River west of Grand Junction, Colorado.
Amy Law, Science Geek 