Category: Science Geek Blog
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Birds and Bunnies
An American Goldfinch has been at the feeder for the past two days. Thirty years ago, I saw one of these guys and thought somebody’s parakeet had escaped. Researching what it was started me on a lifetime of bird watching. White-breasted Nuthatch making off with a sunflower chip. If you look closely at this shot,…
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Birds Around the Neighborhood
Ever since I almost missed the Cedar Waxwings at the beginning of March, I’ve been toting my camera along when we take the dogs on their morning walk around the neighborhood. That thing weighs six pounds! But it is worth it. Part of our normal walk takes us through an “old growth” part of the…
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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…
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Cedar Waxwings
There is a tree along the walk that my husband and I take every morning with the dogs. It’s a chokecherry tree. Every spring it is covered in beautiful pink blossoms. But in late winter, it is loaded with last year’s chokecherries. And sometimes, the cedar waxwings visit. I think they are very beautiful birds…
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It’s Beginning to Feel A Lot Like Spring!
In the past week, the temperatures have warmed up along the Colorado Front Range — a lot! As a result, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring. There have been dozens of robins flying through the neighborhood. Robins have a special place in my heart for two reasons: first, they were the first bird…
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American Dipper
There are several American Dippers wintering under bridges across the greenbelt west of Denver. They wade in the icy water to catch small crustaeceans. Sometimes they just put their heads in. And sometimes they go all the way under and walk along the bottom of the rushing creek.
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Red-Tailed Hawk in Backyard
I was on the phone with my son Sunday when the dogs went berserk. Looking into the backyard, I saw why — an enormous Red-tailed Hawk was sitting in the top of the Russian-olive tree in our back yard, lusting over the birds scattering from our feeder. With a hurried excuse to my son, I…
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Ducks!
I am a dryland girl. When I was growing up, there wasn’t enough open water around to entice any sort of waterfowl to land. So I never bothered to pay attention to ducks when I *did* see them. But now I’m going down the the Creek frequently — it lets me relax to see the…
Amy Law, Science Geek 