Category Archives: Wildlife

vireo (to be green) plumbeus (the color of lead) Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — 10:05 am Phantom Canyon Road — Fremont County, Colorado It was a lot easier to hear this bird than it was to see it. I spent … Continue reading →

empidonax (from empis, gnat, mosquito, and anax, king) wrightii (given by Spencer F. Baird in 1858 for Charles Wright, a Connecticut botanist who collected birds in the Southwest) Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — 9:00 am Temple Canyon Road — Canon … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →