Tag: natural history

• Blue and Black Magpie follows me on the trail

  This magpie was my buddy at my BudBurst site on Apex trail in Jefferson County earlier this week. It and two others have been calling back and forth to each other for a couple of weeks, but this time, one of the magpies stayed with me as I made my way up the trail and…

  Amy Law

  July 19, 2013

  Colorado Mileposts

  BudBurst, Colorado, iridescent, magpie, natural history

• Gold on the trail! Or not.

  The several days of light rains in Apex Canyon have washed a lot of fool’s gold down into the erosion control dams that cross the trail. Those portions of the trail glitter!    Fool’s gold has a gold color that fooled many beginning prospectors from the ancient Greeks to the Colorado gold rush. It didn’t help…

  Amy Law

  July 9, 2013

  Colorado Mileposts

  Colorado, fool’s gold, gold, Jefferson County, natural history, Project BudBurst