Category Archives: Wildlife

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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Bird #483 — Pinyon Jay

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Roger

gymnorhinus (from gymno, naked, bare, and rhinos, nose) cyanocephalus (from cyaneus, dark blue, and cephala, head) Sunday, October 29, 2017 Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado We were driving into the park with the Sangre de Cristo mountains on our … Continue reading →

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Rocky Mountain National Park — Moose

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Roger

As we were getting out of our car at Holzwarth Historic Site, a kind man with a British accent pulled up in his SUV and informed us that family of moose were grazing in the meadow along the Colorado River. … Continue reading →

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Chipmunks and Elk

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Roger

On the grand tour, we drove from Victor to Cripple Creek (where we paused only long enough to see the wandering burros) to Florissant. We ate lunch at Costello Street, then headed to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument for a … Continue reading →

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