Tag: Front Range
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Spring storm brings cold, wet; hummers come to feeder
As a violent spring storm crosses the country, the temperatures along the Front Range of Colorado are hovering in the low 40 degree range, and may dip below freezing tonight, and the drizzle we’ve had all day may turn to snow. Yet hummingbirds have been in the area for a month. These little guys have…
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Life in the mountain shrub community
Another hike, a bunch more fun photos. One of the big reasons I like walking is because I go slow enough to see interesting things. If I’d know blotchiness on the side of the lizard would be diagnostic, I would have tried to get a shot. The slit on the lizard’s head is not a…
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Sharp-shinned hawk misses flicker for lunch
The gregarious band of little bushtits took off in a burst of feathers and cheeping alarm calls. I looked up just in time to see a Northern flicker shoot out of the top of a tree, with a sharp-shinned hawk in hot pursuit. Luckily for the flicker, the hawk had made its move too soon,…
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Air Inversion Traps Cold Air, Pollution
Normally on Green Mountain you get a wonderful view of Denver. Often the air is so clear that we can see the terminals of DIA across the Platte valley. Not yesterday. Yesterday, we saw a thick grey smudge across the skyline – pollution held in place by an air inversion. We all know what…
Amy Law, Science Geek 