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| Pikes Peak |
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| Spider Wort |
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| Horse jumping |
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| Aphrodite Fritillary Butterfly |
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| Ute Prayer Tree |
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| Woodhouse's Toad |
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| Puzzle-piece Ponderosa bark |
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| Dawson Butte |
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| Prickly Poppy |
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| Western Tanager |
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| some kind of Penstemon |
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| Dawson Butte |
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| Bee taking shelter in Beardstongue from rain |
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| Eyed Hawk Moth |
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| I remember this sign being around Big Johnson when I was a kid. |
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| "Eye of Sauron" spider (my name for it) eating a blue-legged grasshopper |
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| Assassin bug living up to its name on Thistle |
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| Lewis's Woodpecker |
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| Prickly Pear in bloom |
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| A few of the millions of grasshoppers calling the ranch home |
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| Pikes Peak to the north |
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| House Finch checking us out |
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| Lewis's Woodpecker one of MANY birds who loved the Mulberry tree - now I want a Mulberry tree too! |
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| Western White butterfly |
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| Western Wood Pewee |
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| Black-chinned Hummingbird female |
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| Cicada on a car antenna - these guys sound like circular saws. |
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| Almost-blooming Cholla Cactus |
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| They didn't chop down the tree - they made a totem - Pioneer Park, Florence |
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| Mountain Bluebird |
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| Old home of original landowners before they gave the park to the public. |
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| Vote: manmade or natural? |
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| Haze from Ft. Carson fire made it pretty far north today |
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| Wild Rose |
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| Huge slug! We saw a few crossing the trail. |
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| Orange agoseris - I love orange flowers! |
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| Doesn't the body pattern look like the head of a Samurai warrior? |
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| Many wire birds sit on the barbed wire fence on the entry road. |
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| We saw a Great-horned Owl |
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| Amazing mushroom/fungus! |
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| Hawks on an ivy-covered backstop |
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| Robin, maybe? |
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| Bobolink |
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| First Sunflower of the season for me |
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| Beautiful White Slant Line Moth! |
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| Orange Globe Mallow |
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| Peek-a-boo! |
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| Lazuli Bunting |
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| Reddest House Finch ever! |
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| Primrose |
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| different spot pattern |
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| Several Ladybugs were, um, busy... |
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| Ranch kitty with fur from other ranch kitty it was just playing with |
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| Cool tiny bug (Leaf Beetle) |
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| Damselfly (Plains or Pacific Forktail) |
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| Sproul, Venetucci, Watson - used to own most of the land down here.... |
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| Pacific Loon at Big Johnson |
