Cute little Verdin,

I photographed the Verdin the top pic at the photo blind feeders at Falcon State Park earlier this week. It was in the company of 2 other V...

Western Tanager, rare winter visitor @ Edinburg Wetlands

I photographed this female Western Tanager this morning at Edinburg Wetlands in Edinburg, TX. which is one of my favorite birding spots in t...

Last pics of Tropical Parula

Such a beauty, I just had to post two more pics of this Tropical Parula. The top pic shows why it was fairly easy to spot this small passar...

More Tropical Parula Pics

The top pic isn't as sharp but it shows the white undertail coverts and very limited white spots on tail. It also shows the extensivene...

Tropical Parula, a rare beauty Quinta Mazatlan

I went to Quinta Mazatlan this morning to look for the Tropical Parula that was seen there last week. I ran into Jack Cochran, a Penn birde...

More Salineno Ladder-backed Woodpecker pics

Just a couple more pics of the female Ladder-backed Woodpecker I photographed at the feeders at DeWind RV Park in Salineno this morning. Se...

Ladder-backed Woodpecker: another Salineno feeder bird

One of the many birds coming in to the feeders at the DeWind RV Park in Salineno was were Ladder-back Woodpeckers including this female. Sh...

Like many others I was delighted that Brown Jays were being seen again in Salineno at the DeWind RV Park feeders. As Mexican birds Brown Ja...

Here the final two pics of the Black-vented Oriole and they show some of the acrobatic tendencies of this bird as it hangs upside down to fe...

Black-vented Oriole: more pics

The Black-vented Oriole spent it's time either feeding on oranges as shown in these pics or waiting to get a turn to feed on the oranges...

I was delighted to watch this Black-vented Oriole, a rare Mexican vagrant, as it fed on oranges at one of the feeding stations at the Bentse...

West Texas Chihuauhuan Raven fest

Here are two of about a thousand Chihuahuan Ravens I saw as I drove through West Texas where these birds congregate for the winter. I usual...

'Cormorant dies a cruel slow death due to fishing line with hook

This awful description posted publicly on the Kansas birding listserve today of a cormorant dying a slow cruel death due to a thoughtless fi...

Black-throated Green Warbler in So. Texas

I finally got down to So Texas after a friend who wanted to spend some time in Colorado came to stay in my house while I'm gone. Birdin...

And a third juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

I found yet another juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Canon City over the week-end, this one on the grounds of The Abbey (formerly a Cath...

Another juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Canon City

This week-end I found this second juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Canon City. I had just seen the juvenile Yellow-bellied I had found ...

Photographers convicted for White-tailed Eagle disturbance

[public domain photo/myspaceraptorcenterla] RSPB: Photographers convicted for White-tailed Eagle disturbance "Two photographers have be...

Octopus walking up on land: really cool video

This video shows an octopus as it walks onto land and proceeds to walk a significant distance (for an octopus) apparently to a crab it eithe...

Female Williamson's Sapsucker-is she a vagabond?

The only female Williamson's Sapsucker I have found so far this season was at Harrison School on November 4. However, though I had stop...

Juv.Yellow-belliedSapsucker: update

I thought it was time to go check on the juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker that I found just over a week ago in Centennial Park in Canon Cit...

Video: 'Talking with a Pale-billed Woodpecker'

This is a great video by Cornell Lab of Ornithology about a study in Costa Rica of these cool and brilliantly colored woodpeckers that have ...

Busy bushtits

These two Bushtits have dark eyes which are features of males. The one in the top pic is pulling off seeds from rabbit brush, which is a ver...

Bustits on rabbitbrush

Bushtits are one of my favorite birds and these are foraging on one of my favorite native shrubs-rabittbrush. Though so nondescript in appe...

Juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker here for the winter

Yesterday I found this juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Centennial Park in Canon City,CO. I have been seeing fresh sap wells in the pin...

Diving Belted Kingfisher

I was very pleased to get the above photo of a Belted Kingfisher as it dove towards a pond to get a fish. Fortunately the light was good so...

Surprise: Worm-eating Warbler still in Canon City

I was surprised to refind the Worm-eating Warbler, that I found a week ago today, along the eastern section of the Canon City Riverwalk this...

"The hidden beauty of pollination"

This is an extraordinary video showing hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, bats and flowers so close up and so vivid it takes your breath away....

High flying Northern Harrier

Among several interesting hawks I have seen in the Canon City area in the past week is this juvenile Northern Harrier.  With it's dark h...

Another Harlan's Hawk photo

Though the bird was more distant in this pic, about 200 feet away, the light was a little better so it provides a nice view of it's head...

Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk

This is a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk that has been visiting in the Canon City, CO area for several days. It was quite sensitive and did n...