I guess I stand corrected on the gulls are seabirds only stereotype as I found these guys in a dry semi arid state on the beach of Barr Lake State Park where there are also dead fish too 🤮🤮
My Hummer friends have returned to the feeder with many more of the family coming to feed on the nectar.
I saw this very tiny hen. Kountze Lake in Belmar Park Lakewood. She was extremely tiny compared to a mallard hen. I think she’s a teal but I’m not sure since I didn’t see a drake nearby.
Denver Audubon kingery nature center I saw this cedar waxwing eating a chokecherry and I was able to get a sharp look at its head and was lucky enough to see it eat one of the fruits with its beak open
These were photos taken in Colorado and Northern New Mexico mountains. i know they are broad-tailed but where are the males? I hear the males flying around and sometimes see them in tree but only see the females at the feeders so where are the males?
Found several species at Chatfield earlier this morning, a catbird (who lowkey sounds a lot like a cat), bald eagle, western meadowlark, red-tailed hawk (a rare extreme close up), two shots of a lesser goldfinch and a Woodhouse’s scrub jay which is crazy that we have them in the southwest. So the scrub jay, lesser goldfinch, and the bald eagle are my 3 new lifers from Chatfield.
Got 4 new species but the catbird was at a different park. I also got to see another goose today which Merlin told me was a greater white fronted goose a snowy egret, an avocet, and a couple killdeer on the mudflats including some mallards and Canada geese. There were also at least a couple dozen cormorants on the central island.
The photos of the western bluebird are the same one. The western tanager, pygmy nuthatch, western bluebird, pine Siskin, and broad-tailed hummingbird were all spotted in Ponderosa pines near the Buffalo bill trail. The crow is an extra and I included the view of Denver and the continental divide.
I can‘t contain my excitement but sorry about the all caps I’ve always wanted to find a bluebird mountain or western but here’s a mountain bluebird i saw on the gravel near our mountain home in Black Lake resorts New Mexico.
Today is my 21st birthday and I got to see 4 new lifers today in Colorado. A barn swallow an American white Pelican, a western meadowlark, and a black crowned night heron. My favorite one is the barn swallow takeoff one in the 3rd picture. Hope you enjoy these photos😊😊
The first 3 images were taken on Tuesday and the last 3 photos were taken yesterday. Merlin told me the first 3 were a Say’s phoebe but I can’t tell if the second 3 are a Western wood pewee or a Say’s phoebe but I can’t see the breast, does anybody know which one? I already added Say’s Phoebe to my life list for the first three photos but did I accidentally add the wrong one to my life list?
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I saw this house finch in CO today but noticed its head and breast wasn’t red like a typical male house finch anybody have a guess?
All of these except the blue jay are new lifers (Ive seen them several times here) and my second flycatcher in Colorado besides the Western kingbird.
I can’t freaking believe I got to see broad tailed hummingbirds in the wild but yet they won’t visit out feeder. These were in Colorado in Littleton.