Pretty Carolina Wren

I photographed this Carolina Wren at Hildago Pumphouse (where they used to pump water from the Rio Grande River for many farm fields). Sout...

Cemetery amenities----for birds

I spotted this Golden-fronted Woodpecker and Northern Cardinal in the Roselawn Cemetery getting a drink from one of the urns that are filled...

Bright Pine Warbler

While birding in the Roselawn Cemetery I found this Pine Warbler, I believe a male, foraging in the same area as the Greater Pewee. SeEtta

Greater Pewee--check out that schnoz

Just one more pic that helps show off the yellow-orange mandible on it's bi-colored and very large bill on the Greater Pewee. (It's ...

Greater Pewee, a rare winter vagrant

I photographed this Greater Pewee in Roselawn Cemetery in McAllen,Tx. It was located by a gentleman from Idaho. These photos can be enlarg...

Crossbill video from Cornell Lab

This is a really fantastic video that shows just how White-winged Crossbills use their distinctive bills to gain access to seeds locked insi...

Close up view of 'rotor' or wave clouds

I have found these cloud formations referred to as 'rotor' clouds or wave clouds on some of the meteriological sites I have found. ...

"Rotor" or wave clouds near Wet Mountains in Colorado

I was birding just east of Canon City this afternoon when I spotted these cool clouds. For 45 minutes the clouds formed into what looked li...

One more Goshawk pic showing supercilium

I think this pic shows the white supercilium that is one of the field marks of this species. SeEtta

Northern Goshawk in flight

Soon the juvenile Northern Goshawk was flushed by the bird mobbing it and I caught these pics as it flew past me. Northern Goshawks are not...

Northern Goshawk, a cool find

As I walked back down the dry gulch where I was looking for sapsucker work, I spotted this juvenile Northern Goshawk perched in a deciduous ...

Another sapsucker feeding tree in dry gulch

This morning I hiked a little over a mile following the dry gulch where I have been following the Williamson's Sapsuckers in the siberia...

Splish, splash, crows taking a bath

The lower pic shows about 40-50 crows in the larger flock that are taking advantage of the water in the Arkansas River. Others perched in n...

Crows, crows, crows

These American Crows were part of a large flock of about 125-150 that I found just east of Canon City, CO today. Many of them were on a gra...

Another Red-naped Sapsucker

Today was the first time I have spotted this male Red-naped Sapsucker though it was found this fall in Lion's Park in Florence,CO. Thou...

Running on water: Common Goldeneye

I photographed this female Common Goldeneye today at Brush Hollow Reservoir northeast of Canon City, CO. The goldeneye flushed but was not f...

Feral cat predation on birds--new research

(Washington, D.C., December 8, 2010) A new, peer-reviewed study report titled, Feral Cats and Their Management from the University of Nebr...

Sapsuckers today: total of 19 in Canon City, CO Area

I started off to just do a count of the female Williamson's Sapsuckers today as there are so many birds it seemed like it would be easie...

Itchy Cedar Waxwing

While continuing my surveys of wintering sapsuckers in the Canon City, CO area I took a few minutes to enjoy a small flock of Cedar Waxings ...

Titmice and chickadees feeding at sap wells

The Juniper Titmice in the previous two posts and the one below are located in trees in the dry gulch near Canon City where I have been foll...

More Juniper Titmice

Juniper Titmouse is listed as a 'species of concern' in Colorado by Colorado Partners In Flight Though this species is usually assoc...

Busy, busy titmice

These Juniper Titmice are busy little birds, flitting about, making it a challenge to get a photo that is not blurred by their rapid movemen...

Williamson'sSapsucker--yet another male in Canon City

Another day, another sapsucker--I found this new male Williamson's Sapsucker in a private yard in Canon City today. It is working some ...

Another sap-lover: Western Yellowjacket

I photographed this Western Yellowjacket yesterday in Lion's Park in little Florence, CO as it and a number of other wasps feasted on/at...

Williamson's Sapsuckers--two in Florence,CO

I had previously seen fresh sap wells at Lion's Park in Florence,CO but had not had the time to get out there early enough to find the s...

More sap-lovers: Juniper Titmice

As if the small grove of eurasian elm trees weren't crowded enough with the 3 female and 1 male Williamson's Sapsuckers located in a...