Category Archives: Wildlife

Animal #57 — Colorado Chipmunk

tamias quadrivittatus Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — 8:50 am Temple Canyon Road — Canon City, Colorado As I drove down Temple Canyon Road, I had to slow down to make a sharp turn on a switchback. I heard a loud … Continue reading

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Seeking Shelter

I left the marsh at 9:00 pm and headed west. Back at home, before I began the trip, I’d looked up restaurants in all the towns I was passing through to see if there were any I particularly wanted to … Continue reading

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Bird# 453 — Black Rail

laterallus (from latus, side, flank, and rallus, rail) jamaicensis (Jamaica) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 9:00 pm County Roads 16 and HH — Fort Lyon, Colorado When I began birding 33 years ago, one of the requirements for adding a … Continue reading

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Bird #452 — Lark Bunting

calamospiza (from kalame, a stalk of grain, and spiza, finch) melanocorys (from melanos, black, and korus, lark, because it sings in flight) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 4:55 pm County Road 10 north of Las Animas, Colorado Lark Buntings are … Continue reading

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Animal #56 — Desert Cottontail

sylvilagus audubonii Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 2:42 pm Bent’s Fort National Historic Site, Colorado As I toured the fort, I wandered out into this courtyard. Behind the wagon in the shed on the left there is a wood pile. … Continue reading

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