Olive-sided Flycatcher, still declining in numbers

This Olive-sided Flycatcher was an unexpected surprise on my trip to the Lower Arkansas Valley of Colorado last week. I found it giving it&#...

Mississippi Kite: here's looking at you

This is another specialty species I was looking for when I traveled to the lower Arkansas Valley area last week. I found this kite in La Ju...

Singing Dickcissel, close-up

This photo was so good I was able to crop it for a very close-up view and like the others is tweak-free (no other editing). It is really ni...

Distinctive Dickcissel

I drove down to the lower Arkansas Valley a few days ago to look for some special species and I was successful in finding Dickcissel, a spec...

Black Phoebe at nest: video clip

In this short video clip one of the Black Phoebe parent birds can be seen perched above and to the left of the nest, very obvious by it'...

Black Phoebe nesting: 6-9 days old

The top pic shows one of the Black Phoebe very young nestlings when it is between 6-9 days old. At this stage it's beak is very large r...

Raven with nestling inside cave nest

This was the most difficult as the parent is inside the cave with the nestling. I think the parent bird is fairly easily visualized perched...

Common Raven at nest in cave

I have been monitoring a pair of Common Ravens that have nested in a small cave in the side of a cliff near Canon City. I suspect this is t...

Bobolink: what sharp tail feathers you have

Still the same Bobolink singing on the line above me. In this pis the very sharply pointed rectrices/tail feathers show up nicely.  Birds ...

Bobolink: a tailfeather view

While observing several male Bobolink as they engaged in their territorial behavior, this guy flew onto a power line above me providing a ra...

Video:More Bobolinks Countersinging

In this clip three male Bobolinks are seen displaying and engaging in countersinging while between 2 and 4 additional male Bobolinks are hea...

Bobolinks countersinging: video with 9 singing

I found several male Bobolinks engaged in countersinging in the middle of some farm fields for which I had permission to enter so I was able...

Lazuli Bunting, yard & neighborhood bird

This is one of the two male and one female Lazuli Buntings that have been singing in trees in my yard and several several adjacent yards for...

Northern Parula: yellow throat and inside of mouth too

The Northern Parula I found in my yard this afternoon was kind enough to show off it's very yellow throat and black band across it as sh...

Nice yard bird-Northen Parula

Yesterday I was pleased with the mini-fall out in my yard of neotropical migrants though none was rare at all. This morning all that remain...

My neighborhood Gray Catbird

A number of years ago a pair of Gray Catbirds nested right under my dining room window--what wonderful intimate views I had. Unfortunately ...

Western Bluebird pair carrying food

This morning I birded the Canon City,CO Riverwalk for a bit and found this pair of Western Bluebirds in a field where they were foraging, of...

Glossy Ibis, a bird's just gotta scratch

Those long nails and toes come in handy when an ibis has an itch. SeEtta

Glossy Ibis near Florence, CO

I found this apparent Glossy Ibis earlier this week in a flock of about 90 White-faced Ibis feeding in a flooded field in Florence, CO. It ...

Eastern Phoebes building nest

While looking for spring migrants at Tempel Grove north of Lamar, Colorado on Sunday I spotted a pair of Eastern Phoebes building a nest--we...

Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Black-chinned Hummingbird

Last Friday I found this first of the year Rose-breasted Grosbeak feeding near also first of the year Indigo and Lazuli Buntings. Though le...

Summer Tanager, brillliant red

Yesterday I drove 150 miles to a migrant trap in Bent County, CO. The winds were strong and gusty so birding was challenging. This hotspot...

Bright spring plumaged Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warblers can have such bright colorful plumage during spring as this Audubon's sub-species has. This is one I saw at Temp...

Video: Black Phoebe feeding newly hatched nestling

I believe that the nestling(s) being fed were just hatched today. This is a pairing of Black Phoebes nesting under a footbridge near Canon C...

Video clip of recently fledged Eastern Bluebird

Though I would like to have been there when the baby bluebirds fledged I had to leave. When I returned a few hours later they were gone from...

Eastern Bluebirds: dad doing the feeding

The male Eastern Bluebird was a faithful parent that brought food about as often as the female while I was watching. As the nestlings grew ...

Eastern Bluebird nestlings

The Eastern Bluebird nestlings became very impatient about waiting to be fed and would stick their heads out the nest hole looking for their...