More super close up pics of Green Heron

I was able to get these super close-ups by using my car as a blind. The heron was less than 20 feet away but undisturbed as I was very quie...

Super close-up of Green Heron

Yesterday I was delighted to find this Green Heron on a farm pond at my friend's near Canon City,CO. I have seen adult Green Herons at ...

Rocky Ford Mississippi Kites

My last stop yesterday was in Rocky Ford which is one of the towns along the Arkansas River with Mississippi Kites. I only saw 3 kites incl...

Blue-eyed Darner dragonfly

I caught this beautiful dragonfly in flight at the John Martin Res State Wildlife Area. It was patrolling some emergent wetlands and about ...

Black-necked Stilts in yucky water

Yesterday I birded in the lower Arkansas Valley during a very unusual cool spell (usually close to 100 in this area but lower 70's yeste...

Young Mallard chicks, all alone

I spotted these 7 very young Mallard chicks swimming in the Arkansas River near my friend's place with no sign of a parent bird. As thes...

Barrow's Goldeneye near Canon City,CO

Today I found this Barrow's Goldeneye on the Arkansas River a few miles east of Canon City, CO which is a very unusual place to find thi...

Pueblo Mountain Park

Yesterday after an appointment in Pueblo, I decided to tske a detour through Beulah, a small but neat town in western Pueblo County. Since ...

Some Cedar Waxwings in Canon City

I stopped at the Canon City Riverwalk for a short time this morning to see what might be around while I drank a cup of coffee after my class...

Flock of 75+ Pinyon Jays

Yesterday I had a little time after the Colo Water Conservation Board meeting that I drove up to attend so I got a some birding in around Sa...

Am Goldfinch take the best sunflowers

The American Goldfinches are pretty feisty and fend off Lesser Goldfinch that try to feed on the best sunflowers. My sunflower garden didn&...

Lesser Goldfinch feasting on sunflower seeds

These Lesser Goldfinch have been enjoying my backyard sunflower garden. I have been trying to add more natural food sources so I can reduce...

Neighborhood Gray Catbird-eye to eye

This is my neighborhood Gray Catbird that visits my yard and others around me frequently. I expect this is the male as I was engaged in som...

Close-up of Prairie Rattlesnake-from a distance

There is a big advantage of having a super long telephoto lens for many shots but none more comforting than when you want to take a photo of...

Common Nighhawks snoozing

I spotted this Common Nighthawk as I drove out of Neenoshe Reservoir last week with a group of folks conducting a site survey. I couldn'...

Mississippi Kites breeding

I just realized that videos on my blog can be enlarged to full screen views (rather than having to go to youtube to do it) by clicking on th...

Mississippi Kites-video clip of pair working on nest together

This brief video clip shows both of the Mississippi Kites working on the nest together. I was surprised to see this and thought maybe they ...

Mississippi-another video clip of nest building

This is a longer, just over a minute, video clip of one of the Mississippi Kites working on the nest I found being built in Lamar Woods, Lam...

Mississippi Kite-video of nest building

This is one of the video clips that came out very good of the Mississippi Kite engaged in nest building. I think it's fascinating to wa...

Mississippi Kite buidling nest

While doing a little birding at Lamar Woods in Lamar,CO two days ago, I spotted a Mississippi Kite appearing to build a nest. All she had w...

W Kingbird fledglings all in a row

Though a little far away for good pic of these small bird, these fledglings were just too cute all lined up on a branch especially with the ...

Bright Common Yellowthroat

I spotted this Common Yellowthroat skulking around in the cattails in the John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area. I love their very brig...

Three American Badger young

While driving on H50 in Bent County I spotted some small animals right beside the highway ahead of me. Since I take active measures to avoi...

Iraq's major weltand area being revitalized

This is a very interesting segment of a 60 Minutes report, including great photography, about Iraq's major wetland area that Saddam trie...

Green Heron-short video clip catching a fish

I went to the Canon City Riverwalk tonight to try to videotape the Green Heron that is in the previous posts. I left my dslr camera and too...

More pics of Green Heron

In the top pics the Green Heron makes the final adjustments of the fish before swallowing it in one large gulch. The bottom pic is right af...

Green Heron-photo series with fish

I photographed this Green Heron on a small pond on the Canon City, CO Riverwalk. There have been Green Herons fishing at this pond for a nu...

Black Skimmer babies run over on Texas beach

I just read on Texbirds that some jerk drove into the closed off area of the Rockport Beach Park in the dsrk July 1/2 and ran over 37-39 Bla...