Octopus walking up on land: really cool video

This video shows an octopus as it walks onto land and proceeds to walk a significant distance (for an octopus) apparently to a crab it eithe...

Female Williamson's Sapsucker-is she a vagabond?

The only female Williamson's Sapsucker I have found so far this season was at Harrison School on November 4. However, though I had stop...

Juv.Yellow-belliedSapsucker: update

I thought it was time to go check on the juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker that I found just over a week ago in Centennial Park in Canon Cit...

Video: 'Talking with a Pale-billed Woodpecker'

This is a great video by Cornell Lab of Ornithology about a study in Costa Rica of these cool and brilliantly colored woodpeckers that have ...

Busy bushtits

These two Bushtits have dark eyes which are features of males. The one in the top pic is pulling off seeds from rabbit brush, which is a ver...

Bustits on rabbitbrush

Bushtits are one of my favorite birds and these are foraging on one of my favorite native shrubs-rabittbrush. Though so nondescript in appe...

Juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker here for the winter

Yesterday I found this juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Centennial Park in Canon City,CO. I have been seeing fresh sap wells in the pin...