Visit from chickadee

While I was trying to look at an empid flycatcher yesterday on the Canon City, CO Riverwalk, this Black-capped Chickadee flew in to apparent...

Juvenile Green Heron

I found this apparent migrant yesterday on the east section of the Canon City, CO Riverwalk. Though I looked for it today, I did not refind...

Landbird migration--Olive-sided Flycatcher

More fall migrants are moving through the Canon City, CO area where I live including this Olive-sided Flycatcher I saw this morning on the C...

Bull elk with his harem

While birding with the birder from Virginia, we found this nice herd of American Elk. All the cows in this "harem" belong to this...

Probable Gray Flycatcher

I took a birder from Virginia to a number of birding spots around Eastern Fremont Co 2 days ago. While birding several miles down the county...

Peregrine Falcon head features

This pic was nice at showing the the head of a juvenile Peregrine Falcon. Important field marks that can be seen in this pic are the blue c...

More juv. Peregrine Falcon pics

I believe it had field marks consistent with a juvenile "American" (F.p. anatum) Peregrine Falcon described in detail in Brian Whe...

New Peregrine on the block

Today while checking for late nesters on my Colo Breeding Bird Atlas block east of Florence,CO, I saw this juvenile Peregrine Falcon fly dow...

Second nesting: more Black Phoebe fledglings

On 8-4-09 I found these Black Phoebe fledglings near the MacKenzie Bridge over the Arkansas River on the east edge of Canon City, CO. Earli...

Bats, bats, bats

For the last 4 nights, I have enjoyed watching a bat spectacle east of Canon City. There were more than a hundred bats foraging over the sm...

Close visit from an Eastern Phoebe

Yesterday when I got to my friend's to walk my dogs, I was delighted to see that an Eastern Phoebe had flown in and perched less than 20...

Both juvenile Black Phoebes still at Pathfinder

I was pleased to refind both of the two juvenile Black Phoebes that I first found at Pathfinder Park near Florence, CO at the beginning of J...