Category Archives: Wildlife

setophaga (from Greek ses, “moth,” and phagos, “eating”) graciae (discovered by Elliott Coues and named after his 18-year-old sister, Grace Darling Coues) Monday, May 29, 2017 — 8:50 am Cheyenne Mountain State Park, Colorado This was about as easy as … Continue reading →

dendroica (from dendron, tree, and oikos, home or habitat) townsendi (named for John Townsend, American naturalist and collector) Sunday, May 21, 2017 — 9:40 am Fountain Creek Regional Park — Fountain, Colorado I’m still getting use to birding in my … Continue reading →

I’ve birded in short spurts since I’ve moved to Colorado, but this weekend was the first time I took a large chunk of a day just for birding. I started at Fountain Creek Regional Park, the closest thing in the … Continue reading →

taxidea taxus Saturday, May 20, 2017 – 11:20 am Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado We were driving the wildlife loop at the prairie refuge between downtown Denver and the Denver Airport. We saw two or three vehicles stopped … Continue reading →

The U.S. government developed chemical weapons on this site east of Denver during WWII. Then Shell Oil bought it and used it to make agricultural chemicals until 1985. Two things became apparent at that point: 1) the site was badly … Continue reading →