Tag: Colorado birds
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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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Dipper is Back
It’s been a bit since I’ve posted, I know. But remember those hummingbird photos I was having so much fun with? Turns out that whipping the camera around to catch the little guys gave me a bad case of tennis elbow. Who knew? This morning was the first in months where I didn’t have pain…
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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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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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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…
Amy Law, Science Geek 