Kingbird Highway Bird – Tyrannus tyrannus
Kingbird Highway is the beat book of birdwatching. I it read 8 years ago, after my first trip to the US (Chicago/Illinois/Indiana). I loved it. I had already encountered my first Kingbird out in the...
View ArticleTilkonapaook – the precious stone bird
Reading Audubon’s entry for the Lazuli Finch (Bunting) you here the names of many a bird collector. There is Say (as in Phoebe), Wilson (as in Snipe), Townsend ( as in Warbler) and Nuttall ( as in...
View ArticleChirpers at Sunlight Mountains – Cassin’s Finch and Siskin
The Cassin’s Finch (Carpodacus cassinii) was beneath the veranda coming to feed on the spellings from the feeder above. First a male and then a female joined in. They gave me the best views of this...
View ArticlePygmy Nuthatches, Estes Park, Colorado
The Pygmy nuthatches (Sitta pygmaea) entertained me as I sat having a coffee and a sandwich at Cafe on the outskirts of Estes Park, Colorado. I had driven up from Louisville, starting out early. To sit...
View ArticleSage thrasher with insect prey, Massadona, Colorado
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...
View ArticleHorned Lark on the shore of a sea of prairies
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...
View ArticleWhite Pelican high in on a mountain lake – Colorado
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...
View ArticleClark’s Crow, high in the mountains above sunlight
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...
View ArticleSteller’s Jay, Alaska and a German Naturalist
The Steller’s Jay is another entertaining members of the Crow/Corvid family found in North America. In Colorado I was a bit disappointed to only see a few. My travels along the West Coast of the...
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