The Clark’s ‘crow‘, perched on the tall pine, perused the the forests of the sunlight mountains. Although crows can have an ominous air about them these birds have an endearing quality. There is a trickster quality to their gait and in the way the fly in small groups amongst the trees. They seem to be [...]
For a European birdwatcher, a Pelican is an exotic sounding bird. A bird of the tropics and the Mediterranean. To see them high on a mountain lake in the High Rockies of Colorado, of course is no surprise. But somehow it seems strange. Of course the White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) breeding grounds are not in [...]
The Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) is how the Americans refer to our Shore lark. For we in the UK tend to see the bird in winter foraging along the sand dunes and shingle banks on along our coasts. For the Americans and Canadians it is a bird that frequents the seas of open ground – [...]
The Western kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) hangs out along the roads of Colorado, as it does all across Western North America. It appears the bird is one of the a success story as it has been expanding it’s range to Eastern, overlapping more and more with it’s cousin the Eastern Kingbird.
The ‘Blanding’s finch was in a bush high on Harper’s Point in the Dinosaur National Monument. No longer referred to as a Finch or named after Blanding, the Green-tailed towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) can be difficult to see as it tends to stay in the shade at the base of sage bushes.
The Sage thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) sat, alert, with prey on top of the sage bush out in the dry arid lands east of Massadona, Colorado. I was heading to Dinosaur in search of dry land species and impressive landscapes. Turning of road US Highway 40 as directed by the Colorado Field Ornithologists great website, I [...]
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