Category: Colorado Mileposts
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Bald Eagles in Wild Storm
With Winter Storm Ulmer crashing in, the bald eagles at their Fort St. Vrain nest (https://amylaw.blog/2019/02/10/eagle-cam/)have had a hard day today. It started off with driving sleet that soaked our birds. Both of them huddled together for about half an our — the longest I’ve seen both birds in the nest during the day. But…
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Zoe the Mighty Hunter
Winter Storm Ulmer has been an incredible storm so far — we woke up to rain that quickly changed to sleet, then snow. The atmospheric pressure keeps dropping — Pueblo, Colorado, set an unofficial low pressure record already this morning, and it’s supposed to drop further. But even in the middle of a bomb cyclone,…
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Angry Eagles
This morning, one of the bald eagles at the Fort St. Vrain nest was very upset about something. She had several different calls. Some sounded like a song bird, others a little like a gull. https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/baleag/introduction None were the bold dramatic call we hear in movies — that’s actually a red-tailed hawk. I didn’t get…
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Bald Eagle Egg #3, Day 1
The Fort St. Vrain Bald Eagles have been busy. They’ve added more sticks to their nest… … they are eating well… … and as of this morning, they’ve laid a third egg. If I’ve counted correctly, we should start seeing eaglets around March 20.
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Bald Eagle Egg #2 Day 1
The Fort St. Vrain Bald Eagles fussed about their nest again today. Those sticks just aren’t quite right! The larger eagle, in the foreground, flew off, and left us with a view of the smaller eagle — and two eggs. Of concern: snow and single digit night time temperatures for the next few days…
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Bald Eagle Egg #1, Day 1
The Bald Eagles at the St. Vrain Power Plant in Platteville, Colorado laid their first egg of the season sometime last night or early this morning. When I checked in on them around 10:00 this morning, one of the eagles was sitting in the depression they had carefully created in the nest.https://amylaw.blog/2019/02/10/eagle-cam/ I wasn’t sure…
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Eagle Cam
Many years ago, the local power company, Public Service of Colorado, placed a nest box on the smokestack of one of their power plants. They put a camera inside, and watched what happened. What happened was that a pair of Great Horned Owls moved in and raised a family. The public got to watch. Very…
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Library Goose
I love going to the library! You get the entire world at your fingertips — fiction, science, art, music, geese. Yes, geese were at the library this morning. Colorado has become a wintering stop for vast numbers of Canada geese, who earn their keep by turning dead grass on lawns into organic fertilizer. But this…
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Red-Tailed Hawk
As I pulled into my driveway this afternoon, I spotted a red-tailed hawk about 20 feet up in a cottonwood across the street. I think this bird is a female, based on her size — female raptors are bigger than males. And she is big. I’ve seen her several times in the neighborhood, usually being…
Amy Law, Science Geek 