Category: Colorado Mileposts
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Hummingbird Nesting Material
A broad-tailed hummingbird gathered a tuft of dog fur for nesting material.
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Say’s Phoebe Nesting Material
Say’s Phoebes are birds that flew under my radar for a long time — they aren’t big, they aren’t small, they aren’t flashy, and their song is just two slurred notes. It was the song that eventually caught my ear, and led me to figure out what I was hearing, and seeing. Since then, I’ve…
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Hummingbirds Nesting
I am an opportunistic bird photographer — I photograph them when I see them. That means that late spring, I take my camera with me everywhere. (My husband tells me that presents certain problems, but our marriage survives on the strength of the other 11 months, I guess.) But that means that I had my…
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Windy Mountain Shrub Ecosystem Hike
With the leaf canopy of the big trees fill in and the baby Great Horned Owls fledged, my husband and I decided to take a hike in the foothills west of our house. This hike took us through the Mountain Shrub plant community — the boundary between the High Plains and the Ponderosa Pine plant…
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Sleepy Owls
I haven’t had a good look at the baby owls in the nest along the creek west of Denver yet this season — until yesterday. At least two — yay! I have been told there is a third baby, but I couldn’t confirm it. But they’re huge! All I had seen until yesterday were balls…
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Leave it to Beaver …
I have always wanted to see a beaver in the wild, but have never quite gotten it done. Although the Creek where my husband and I are now walking on a weekly basis has beaver in it, they are nocturnal and I am most definitely diurnal. So I was resigned to having to make a…
Amy Law, Science Geek 