Bringing a warm welcome to the start of another wintery month a Caterpillar inches along. We are inching are way though winter, and enjoying every moment of it, yet just like this caterpillar will emerge as a wonderful butterfly (or perhaps a moth) spring will be here in the blink of an eye. So get out and enjoy that snow before it’s melted and gone away.
Happy Friday, welcome to February and have a wonderful weekend.
One delicate demure and the other stout and raucous. A Black Necked Stilt and a Great Tailed Grackle sure seemed like and odd couple to be hanging out together however they were happily sharing space in this little roadside pond created by early spring rains one April afternoon a year or two ago.
Greeted by warming rays of the morning sunlight a Pronghorn begins its’ day.
Taking a quick trip down memory lane back to a summer day and a little pond not far from home. The frogs were abundant the grass was long and temperature a bit warmer than on this winter day.
Just a moment in time spent seeing the world through a frogs eyes on a calm warm summer day.
Sitting on an old fence post on a cloudy day bringing some color to the monotone sky.Red Tailed Hawk photographed in Northern Colorado.
With the afternoon sun exposing the brilliant purples and blues a Raven preens its feathers, and what beautiful feathers they are.
Fossil records suggest iridescent feathers have been around for awhile and I hope it stays that way.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Marbled Godwits currently face pressure from habitat destruction in both their nesting grounds, the short grass prairies of the northern plains, and their wintering grounds, inter-tidal mudflats along the pacific coast. Prairies are being converted to crop land and mud flats being filled for development. It’s easy to forget birds sometimes need two intact ecosystems to thrive and protecting habitat is perhaps the single most important thing we can all do to protect the abundance and diversity of life on our planet. And who does not like both abundance and variety.
If yesterdays American Goldfinch added a splash of color to a cold winters day these two Pacific Oystercatchers certain added just a touch of color to a blustery winters day along the pacific coast and just what the doctor ordered to warm the day.
Two Oystercatchers on the rocks Please!
Nothing like a splash of color to liven up a winters morning or just about any old Monday morning be it winter, summer, spring or fall.
An American Goldfinch hanging out and easy to spot in those leafless branches.
Between the land and the sea what a place to be. Swallows flying free over Lake John near Walden, CO last summer.
nature has no boss 
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