Category Archives: Wildlife

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 →

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 →

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 →

limnothlypis (marsh finch) swainsonii (named after 19th-century English ornithologist William Swainson, by John James Audubon) Tuesday, April 24, 2012 — 7:40 pm Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia — Reids Station Road It was 7:30 and dusk was swiftly approaching. I’d … Continue reading →