Wandering the ponds and grasslands of Arapahoe National Wildlife Refuge on a quiet day and finding what we came for.
A quiet day.
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Who-weeee-who
It is always a nice when the Mourning Doves have returned to the neighborhood and such a pleasant sound to hear while on a early morning walk. I wonder what that small iridescent patch of feathers is for?
Robins Return
There is no doubt spring is here when you are awoken at 5:00am by a chorus of Robins singing outside your bedroom window. It is a wonderful sound, unless of course you were planning to sleep in that day or by chance you get a Robin who can’t sing so sweet and decides your chimney is the place to be, as we did a few years ago.
Goodbye Goldeneyes
Seems like it is time again to bid the Goldeneyes farewell for the season. We all can sense spring is in the air and they have all abruptly left the local pond this week for their annual migration to the north. We may yet get a snow storm or two but the goldeneye migration is a natural calendar I can count on to tell me middle March is here.
Hi Boys
As the old saying goes…it takes two to tango. Last week it was the male Hooded Mergansers performing on the pond for a somewhat non receptive female.This week the female appears at least a wee bit interested in the growing selection of males as they swim around the pond head bobbing to get her attention.
Prowling the banks
Looks like Duck or Goose may be on the menu as a Coyote prowls the banks of the Platte River in search of a meal.
Denver, CO.
One last time
A simple landscape and one that became a close friend.
Close but not far enough away as the city came crashing in.
Feb 2018
Denver, CO.
