Vulture hit by wind turbine blade survived!!

This just came from American Bird Conservancy today: >>American Bird Conservancy wrote: "This posting has generated a lot of inte...

Snow Goose and Golden Eagles

After the Red-tailed Hawk fight I found this immature Snow Goose (in Basic I plumage) with a small flock of Canada Geese at Holcim Wetlands ...

Red-tailed Hawks fight over female

This afternoon I watched a pair of hawks engaged in some aerial courtship displays--first flying near each other at low elevation, then soar...

Curve-billed Thrasher acting unusually

I was happy to find this Curve-billed Thrasher on my friend's property east of Canon City. It was near the location that a pair had nes...

Rocky Mtn Bighorn Sheep in Bighorn Sheep Canyon up the road a piece

These are a few of a herd of 8+ Rocky Mtn bighorn sheep I spotted grazing not far off of H50 in Bighorn Sheep Canyon which begins about 11 m...

One more Williamson's Sapsucker

Double-click on this and the other sapsucker pics I posted today for super close-up views. This is another female Williamson's Sapsucker...

Wintering sapsuckers in Canon City area: Williamson's Sapsuckers

Today I found both a male and a female Williamson's Sapsucker in the town of Florence as well as 4 female and 2 male Williamson's Sa...

Sapsuckers still wintering in Canon City are: focus on Red-naped

After being careful in looking for those sapsuckers that are overwintering so as not to interfere with feeding or flush them (using valuable...

Cool 'moonwalking' Club-winged Manakin video

This is a PBS video.

Chihuahuan vs Common Ravens: photo comparison

Since we have been discussing how to differentiate Chihuahuan from Common Ravens on Cobirds (colorado birding listserve), I thought this was...

Vulture hit by wind turbine blade video--long clip

WARNING--THIS IS REALLY GRAPHIC. This is an extended version of the one I posted below. It is quite long as it follows the vulture as circ...

Vulture hit by wind turbine blade video

This is very sad as you watch a vulture in Crete circle a wind turbine too close and get hit by the blade. This is the less graphic video c...

Bluebirds sipping snowmelt in the cemetery

These were a few of a small flock of Western Bluebirds drinking yesterday from melted snow in tire tracks in Lakeside Cemetery here in Canon...

Some tasty morsel found by Brown Creeper

The top pic shows a Brown Creeper with some food it found in the crevices of the bark of the tree on which it was foraging. When I enlarge ...

Foraging together, a pair of Brown Creepers

I first heard Brown Creeper high-pitched calls then found two Brown Creepers following each other from tree to tree as they worked their way...

The smallest falcon: American Kestral

I think most of us enjoy seeing these colorful female American Kestrals, the smallest member of the falcon family. This little lady was hun...

Family oriented geese: Greater White-fronted

Though I had found a flock of 14 Greater White-fronted Geese on Dec 11 2010 I did not refind them after my trip to Texas until yesterday, an...

Eastern vs Western Bluebirds

The Eastern Bluebirds in the post below were feeding in a mixed bluebird flock with Western Bluebirds, the species that is fairly common in ...

Brilliantly blue bluebirds

These pics are of a male Eastern Bluebird I photographed in Canon City a few days ago. And the only thing I did to the photos was to crop t...

Second sapsucker working at base of tree--where it would be least frozen

I found this male Williamson's Sapsucker at Centennial Park today and like the other sapsucker it was working near the base of the tree-...

Sapsuckers chiseling frozen trees

Today I went out in late morning to see if any of the wintering sapsuckers would be out after we hit -19 degrees F last night. The temp was...

High of 5 degrees-cold Red-naped Sapsucker

Yesterday was nice compared to today. After a low of minus 3 degrees in Canon City (worse in other front range cities), the high only rose ...

Wintering sapsuckers: many still in Canon City

Since I have been home I have refound just over half of the Williamson's Sapsuckers, one female Yellow-bellied and the one male Red-nape...

Sangre de Christo Mountains in Colorado

I had to take a break from posting for a bit after the intensive almost daily posting I did for a month. Now I'm getting back in the pr...