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Along the Creek
The Front Range of Colorado — the area west of Denver — didn’t get hit with the cold and snow that the eastern part of the country did this week. But we did get ice bells. And birds.
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Zoe’s Turn To Go To Pet Therapy
I took my corgi, Zoe, to Pet Therapy today. Everybody loves a corgi, but she’s a very transactional dog — treats = love, love = treats. So long as we all understand this, it works okay. My mutt, Tegan, on the other hand, thinks it is always her turn to go to the hospital. It…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s been a difficult year, and sometimes, it’s been hard to see my blessings. I’m taking today to count them. One of my blessings is you, my readers. I love taking the pictures of nature and editing them so they’re just right; I enjoy writing text to go with the photos. All of it is…
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Far From Home
A Wood Stork is still visiting a pond along the Colorado Front Range, even as the weather turns cooler.
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Insomnia has it’s advantages…
I was up before dawn recently, and was rewarded by a Cooper’s Hawk fly-by.
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Corvids Carrying Cargo Create Conundrums
Two corvids carry stuff in their beaks, but offer no answers as to what … or why.
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Hummingbird Nesting Material
A broad-tailed hummingbird gathered a tuft of dog fur for nesting material.
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Hummingbird Hawking Gnats
Hummingbirds hunt gnats on the wing for their protein requirements.
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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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Towhee Tiff
Two Spotted Towhees battle for territory #Birds! #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsofFrontRange
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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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Early Flowers Along the Front Range
Native plants are beginning to bloom along the Front Range.
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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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Amy Law, Science Geek 