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Everything There Is to Do in Pueblo

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Roger

Saturday promised to be pleasant, so I decided to head to Pueblo and see what there was to see. My first stop was the El Pueblo History Museum. I expected a history of the city and the area. What I … Continue reading →

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Bird #504 — Parasitic Jaeger

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Roger

stercorarius (of dung, a reference to the skuas’ pursuit of other seabirds until they disgorge their food, the disgorged food once thought to be excrement) parasiticus (parasitic) Tuesday, September 11, 2018 — 5:58 pm Chatfield State Park, Colorado Eighteen years … Continue reading →

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Lifer #503 — Sabine’s Gull

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Roger

xema (a made-up word with no meaning) sabini (named for Joseph Sabine, English naturalist) Tuesday, September 11, 2018 — 4:12 pm Chatfield State Park, Colorado Sabine’s Gulls breed high in the tundra along the Alaskan and Canadian coast of the … Continue reading →

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Lifer #502 — Cassin’s Vireo

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Roger

vireo (small green bird) cassinii (named for John Cassin, American ornithologist) Monday, September 3, 2018 — 10:10 am El Paso County, Colorado — Aiken Canyon Preserve About 20 years ago, the former Solitary Vireo was split into three species. The … Continue reading →

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Bent’s Old Fort and La Junta

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Roger

We took off on Saturday morning and drove to La Junta. We toured Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site, a reconstruction of an early 1800j’s trading fort on the Arkansas River along the Santa Fe Trail. Peafowl were kept at … Continue reading →

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