Last climbing kestrel pic

This photo provides a better view of the young Kestrel's claws clinging to the bark of the tree trunk it is climbing. It appeared to us...

Am Kestrel fledgling, more pics on tree trunk

The top pic shows the American Kestrel fledgling as it is hopping up the tree trunk while using flapping it's wings to assist it in clim...

Am Kestrel fledgling-climbing up a tree!

I had previously observed a pair of American Kestrels that I thought were nesting in a cottonwood grove between the Arkansas River and a hay...

More pics of Grace's Warbler

The top photo was almost full screen. And I like to add photos with back views, that are eschewed by most photographers, since most of us s...

Grace's Warbler, very close-up

After I snapped a couple of photos of the bird in a conifer 80 feet away, it flew right into a tree near where I was standing. Instead of be...

Grace's Warbler, rare in eastern Colorado

Since I had to drive to Trinidad (the one in Colorado, not the island) yesterday to give a presentation to a watershed group I went early so...

Acorn Woodpeckers, a pair

I watched this male and the female whose pics I posted previous for about an hour and a half. They both perched on this same tree that is p...

Acorn Woodpeckers at Pueblo Mtn Park-wow

Late this afternoon I drove to Pueblo Mtn Park to look for the Acorn Woodpecker that had been found last week-end by Dave Van Manen, Directo...

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo, rare here

[note: I haven't posted as I have been very busy finishing Colo Breeding Bird Atlas II surveys, following a few special birds, and seve...