Tag: Front Range
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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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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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Riders on the Storm …
As usual, I heard them before I saw them, a “churring” call echoing off the low clouds. There they were, a ragged line high above me — sandhill cranes running before the storm. The High Plains, including the Front Range, are going to get our first major winter storm starting tonight — and it’s shaping…
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Cedar Waxwings
The Front Range of Colorado has been enjoying an invasion of Waxwings. There are two types of Waxwing in North America — Cedar and Bohemian — and both have been spotted in large numbers throughout the Denver area this winter. I subscribe to several bird-watch lists, and I read with a little frustration about all…
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Turkeys in Ponderosa Pine
I haven’t been hiking as much as I’d like to these last few years, what with Covid and all. So today, my husband and I headed out to a trail a few miles from our house west of Denver that I used to hike a lot. We picked a rotten time to resume hiking —…
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Chinooks blow
The Front Range of Colorado is under a high wind warning today — we’re having a Chinook! I’ve talked about chinook winds before at https://amylaw.blog/2014/02/15/snow-eaters-melt-the-snow/ But in the intervening six years, I’ve learned a bit more about them, as well as upgrading my graphics and getting some better photos of what I’m talking about. Chinook…
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Turkey vultures have returned to Front Range
Some people watch for the first robin of spring. In Capistrano, they look for the return of the swallows. I know it’s spring when the turkey vultures return to the Front Range of Colorado. (https://amylaw.blog/2013/04/08/it-must-be-spring/) Turkey vultures are big birds — the biggest you are likely to see, with the exception of an eagle or…
Amy Law, Science Geek 