Saturday, May 18, 2019

Pikes Peak Birding and Nature Festival - FCNC and Horse Creek Ranch 5/17 to 5/18/19

90

These are a Tiger Moth


Crane Fly

a type of wasp

Integrade Northern Flicker at his door

Summer Tanager



Western Kingbird

Brown Thrasher

Bullock's Oriole

He's taking a bath and gets photobombed by a Common Yellowthroat



some kind of Penstemon

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Mississippi Kite nest building 5-16-19

Mississippi Kite pair building a nest, El Paso County 5/16/19. They wrangle with the green twigs with their feet until they break a piece of off then fly to the nearby other tree where they drop the piece and then kind of weave it in with the rest. They always seem to pick slightly precarious footholds in rather flimsy trees (they seem to love old scraggly Dutch Elms) at least around here.




Saturday, May 11, 2019

Spring Bird Count Fountain Creek Regional Park 5-11-19

87

Bullock's Oriole

Wilson's Phalarope






Great Crested Flycatcher


Great-Horned Owl family

Osprey




Mississippi Kite