27 April 2025
Final week I missed an inflow of migrating warblers that arrived in Pittsburgh however I noticed a whole lot of birds and surroundings in Colorado together with 14 Life Birds.
Flowers: Colorado could be very dry so a lot of the flowers we noticed had been small. The flower with probably the most pizzazz was the brilliant crimson Northern Indian paintbrush, above.
Our group totaled 17 individuals in two vans. The primary van was a birding group from Switzerland, all of them photographers. Many birds had been new to them in order that they took a whole lot of pictures. Right here we’re observing night grosbeaks.
We noticed an previous favourite from Pennsylvania, a nesting nice horned owl with two chicks close to the Utah border. (That is my very own digiscoped picture. I’m awaiting shared fowl pictures from the group.)
Greatest sound was the low droning of the higher prairie chickens in Wray, Colorado. The recording beneath this Wikipedia picture was captured by our information, Sue Riffe, the place we noticed them.
And naturally there was spectacular surroundings: Listed below are the captions and commentary for the slides beneath.
- View of japanese Colorado from the air: Small distinct clouds make shadows on the dry panorama.
- Scene close to Fountain, Colorado: Dry land with a constructing and barbed wire fence. Numerous barbed wire in Colorado.
- Completely shaped remoted “lump” hills close to Fountain, Colorado
- Mesa with sandy erosion deposits that make it look as if the mesa was constructed by bulldozers and dump vans.
- Promontory at Coal Canyon Trailhead. A bit on the prime is able to fall. Be careful beneath!
- Utah-Colorado border highway. Utah is ungrazed on the left. Colorado is grazed by cattle on the best. At this web site Utah has much more birds.
- Meandering Arkansas River at Arapaho NWR.
- Our group walks the prairie at Pawnee Nationwide Grasslands.
- Dawn on the higher sage grouse lek close to Coalmont, Colorado.
It was a superb journey and now I’m glad to be residence. Onward to warblers!
