American Pipits also stop over at Turk's Pond (Colo)

I also found 2-3 American Pipits including this pipit at Turk's Pond today. Since American Pipits breed in very high elevation areas of...

Perky Pectoral Sandpipers at Turk's Pond (in Colo)

Today I birded in Baca County in extreme southeast Colorado. Though there were slim pickings at Two Buttes 'black hole' (which had ...

Migrating hawks feeding in hay fields

The Swainson's Hawk in the top pic has the usual brownish bib. It is standing in the same field as the hawks in next two pics which sho...

Swainson's Hawk

This handsome bird is one of the hundreds of Swainson's Hawks that are in agricultural fields, on power poles (and hay bales) and circli...

Hawk migration in eastern Colorado

Fall hawk migration is a pretty spectacular event in eastern Colorado. Large numbers of hawks stop-over in fields to feed on insects, often...

More Scissor-tailed Flycatcher pics

Though these pics are less than sharp, as the bird is flying they show more field marks. The top two pics provide good top and bottom view ...

Salida white hummer: still around

I found out this past week that the probable albino hummingbird that had visited a feeder near Salida, CO was still around and coming to a n...

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: shows orangish axillary patch

In the top pic the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher has just caught an insect which it is beginning to devour. In both of these pics an organgish ...

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: casting a pellet

I was quite surprised to see what looked like this Scissor-tailed Flycatcher casting out a pellet, a behavior I had no idea that this or a...

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher-a pretty vagrant here in Colorado

This afternoon I found this pretty Scissor-tailed Flycatcher near Holbrook Reservoir in Otero County, Colorado. Scissor-tailed Flycatchers...

White-throated Swifts making a feeding stop above Arkansas River in CO

The day after I enjoyed that wonderful mixed flock of birds in Florence River Park I returned to see if any had extended their stay. Only a...

Townsend's, another fall warbler

There was at least one Townsend's Warbler in the mixed flock with the Am Redstart and 'Western' Flycatcher in Florence River Par...

'Western' Flycatcher-another good pic

This is just another pic of the 'Western' Flycatcher that is high enough quality that it can be enlarged by clicking on it for super...

"Western' Flycather in Florence River Park

This is the 'Western' Flycatcher I found in Florence River Park last week foraging in the mixed flock with the American Redstart I p...

American Redstart, a rare visitor in Fremont Co,CO

I found this first year female American Redstart in a mixed flock last week in Florence River Park. American Redstarts are rare in Fremont ...

Another prob Colo albino hummingbird (Phantom Canyon Ranch)

Photo ©Carolina Kyvik Ruiz This little beauty was seen from Sept 2 through 6 on the Phantom Canyon Ranch, NW of Livermore, CO. The top phot...

Ted Eubanks takes on birders

I found this in a recent publicly viewable blog by Ted Eubanks for the American Birding Association (his blog is quite lengthy as is some ...

Prob hybrid dark ibis in Colo

Since the small flock of Plegadis ibis were moving around as they were feeding in the flooded agricultural field, I cannot say if these are ...

Probable Glossy Ibis near Florence,CO-now prob hybrid GlossyXWhite-facedIbis

Having just read a big discussion about identifying Glossy Ibis in non-breeding plumage (actually the facial skin is the issue most discusse...

Burrowing Owl: does it have ear tuft?

I took these pics just a few days ago of a Burrowing Owl in a prairie dog town in some nice short grass prairie in Crowley County, Colorado....

Standoff-"It's my doggie" or Red-tailed Hawk vs magpies and vulture

I spotted this strange assortment of birds in a prairie-dog town in Otero County. The Red-tailed Hawk had nailed a prairie-dog and was clut...

Migrating sandpipers: sewage ponds

Yesterday we had the first truly cool day, only in the 70's, in more than 2 months so I drove down to the lower Arkansas Valley (which h...