Eastern Bluebirds to Western Tanagers

While many neotropical migrants apparently found a clear sky sometime last night to continue on their migration, there were still lots of bi...

Olive-sided Flycather video clip with it calling and singing

This is one of more than a dozen Olive-sided Flycatchers I have seen in the Canon City area over the past 3 days while rainy and overcast we...

Chestnut-sided Warbler today

Though I have seen a lot of common warblers this is the first rare neotropical migrant I have spotted this spring. I was happy to get this p...

Recently fledged Common Raven

At the end of March this year I spotted a Common Raven going into a crevice above a rock face of a local cliff area called Castle Rock (as p...

Flashdance...oh what a feeling

At times I could almost head Irene Cara belting out Flashdance as she leaped into the air with Sandhill Cranes. These birds were just as sk...

Hey baby do you wanna dance

These Sandhill Cranes were really 'kicking up their heals'. It is interesting the moves they make. Note the bird in the bottom pic ...

Celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music

The Sandhill Cranes have been returning most every day to these agricultural fields only a few miles from where I live. Their exuberance is...

Cranes a-dancin'

These were some of a flock of about 15 Sandhill Cranes that used a local agricultural field in the Canon City area for a migration stop-over...

Bats, bats, bats

For the last 4 nights, I have enjoyed watching a bat spectacle east of Canon City. There were more than a hundred bats foraging over the sm...

Both juvenile Black Phoebes still at Pathfinder

I was pleased to refind both of the two juvenile Black Phoebes that I first found at Pathfinder Park near Florence, CO at the beginning of J...

Eastern & Black Phoebes share wetland

I birded Pathfinder Park near Florence,CO this morning to see if the juvenile Black Phoebes were still there. I only found one of the two j...

Western Wood-Pewee nestlings

Here are pics of a Western Wood-Pewee, her nest and nestlings in Pathfinder Park near Florence,CO. Unfortunately her nest was located high ...

Yellow Warblers feeding fledglings

I found several Yellow Warbler parents feeding their fledgling offspring at Pathfinder Park near Florence,Colo. The bird in the middle pic ...

Juv Black Phoebes still around

I saw 2 juvenile Black Phoebes in Pathfinder Park near Florence, Colo yesterday. I think it these are most likely the same two juvenile Bla...