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Bird #475 — Lewis’s Woodpecker

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Roger

melanerpes (from melanos, black and herpes, a creeper) lewis (named after Meriwether Lewis by ornithologist Alexander Wilson) Saturday, March 18, 2017 Lake Dorothey State Wildlife Area, Colorado I saw on the Internet that 19 Lewis’s Woodpeckers were seen at Lake … Continue reading →

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Lake Dorothey State Wildlife Area

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Roger

To get to this place, you have to head south into New Mexico, then return north through Sugarite Canyon State Park. We went here to see Lewis’s Woodpeckers (next post), but we enjoyed the view too. The trail led up … Continue reading →

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Sugarite Canyon State Park

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Roger

We drove the two-and-a-half hours to this park because I’d seen that Lewis’s Woodpeckers were being seen nearby. Coal was mined in the canyon from 1894 until the start of World War II. In 1912, a company town was built … Continue reading →

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Monument Rock

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Roger

On Saturday evening, I went birding in the portion of Pike National Forest that extends below Mount Herman. The main feature of this section is the outcropping of rock that gave the nearby town of Monument its name. A woman … Continue reading →

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Bird #474 — American Three-toed Woodpecker

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Roger

picoides (from picus, a woodpecker, and eidos, appearance) dorsalis (from dorsal; of or pertaining to the back) Sunday, March 5, 2017 Palmer Lake, Colorado — Pike-San Isabel National Forest — Ice Cave Creek Trail I hiked up the Palmer Lake … Continue reading →

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