Fences are a major problem for many wildlife species

This is a cool video about the problems fences pose to wildlife. SeEtta

Lewis's Woodpecker

I found this Lewis's Woodpecker north of Canon City day before yesterday. I think Lewis's Woodpeckers are pretty cool looking but i...

Reduce bird strikes on your windows

Birds can’t see glass so many fly right into our windows resulting in injury and sometimes death. A new product, from the experts at the Ame...

The other Harlan's Hawk, the more classical type

This is the 2nd Harlan's Hawk I photographed Sunday near Rocky Ford, Colorado. It is an intermediate morph with white on it's foreh...

Dark morph Harlan's Hawk?

I found this jet black hawk near Rocky Ford, Colorado yesterday while I was doing some surveys for the Great Backyard Bird Count in poorly c...

Destructive Tar Sands Oil-TED video

Family of Greater White-fronted Geese, winter visitors

These are a few of the 13 Greater White-fronted Geese that have spent the winter in Canon City, CO. Every winter for more than 15 years now...

Clouds over Wet Mountains in Colorado

Just some nice recent clouds that I have seen formed over the Wet Mountains that lie to the southwest of Canon City. In the top pic the str...

Bald Eagle in Bighorn Sheep Canyon of Colorado

I saw both this and a second adult Bald Eagle while driving through the Bighorn Sheep Canyon that runs west of Canon City to near Salida. B...

Handsome Barrow's Goldeneye

I found this flock composed of 1 male with his 8 female harem in Salida, CO at a small fishing lake called Sands Lake. As small as this lak...

Townsend's Solitaire being unusually friendly

I was very surprised yesterday when this Townsend's Solitaire landed less than 10 feet away and stayed put while I photographed it. I h...

Northern Pygmy-Owl, view from the top

I should have put this photo in earlier, it is actually the same as the top photo in the entry right below but not cropped. I think it prov...

More Northern Pygmy-Owl

The eyes and light eyebrows of the Northern Pygmy-Owl can be seen in the top pic as the owl was looking down at me in this photo. If you lo...

Calling NorthernPygmy-Owl

I found this Northern Pygmy-Owl calling from the very top of this 60-80 foot tall conifer (in the center right of the video). Since Norther...