Category Archives: Nature and the Outdoors

Bird #485 — Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Roger

leucosticte (from leuko, white, and stictos, varicolored) tephrocotis (from tephros, gray, and otos, ear) Saturday, January 6, 2018 — 10:05 am Victor, Colorado — Diamond Avenue When I first spotted the flock of rosy-finches in the aspen next to a … Continue reading →

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Bird #484 — Black Rosy-Finch

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Roger

leucosticte (from leuko, white, and stictos, varicolored) atrata (black) Saturday, January 6, 2018 — 10:00 am Victor, Colorado — Diamond Avenue Black Rosy-Finches breed above timberline in mountains northwest of Colorado, but in the winter, they migrate southeast and hang … Continue reading →

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Getting the Birding Year Off to a Good Start.

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Roger

Anyway … eBird has gotten me interested anew in year lists because I don’t have to do any of the tracking. I just have to go out and see birds and record them. In 2017, I ended up with 210 … Continue reading →

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New Years Weekend

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Roger

Friends spent December 28-31 with us. On Thursday, we went to Pueblo to bird. We saw over 50 species, including a Prairie Warbler that’s been hanging around in the same bushes belong the Pueblo Reservoir dam for about a month. … Continue reading →

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Seven Falls

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Roger

Seven Falls is the name of a tall waterfall in Cheyenne Canyon in southwest Colorado Springs. The creek that runs down the canyon isn’t large. There are some terraces along the way, but it’s a stretch to figure out how … Continue reading →

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