Say’s Phoebe Nesting Material Say's Phoebes are birds that flew under my radar for a long time -- they aren't big, they aren't small, they aren't flashy, and their song is just two slurred notes. It was the song that eventually caught my ear, and led me to figure out what I was hearing, and seeing. Since then, I've heard them a lot, and occassionally seen them at the feeders.

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Windy Mountain Shrub Ecosystem Hike With the leaf canopy of the big trees fill in and the baby Great Horned Owls fledged, my husband and I decided to take a hike in the foothills west of our house. This hike took us through the Mountain Shrub plant community -- the boundary between the High Plains and the Ponderosa Pine plant communites. It's often overlooked because it doesn't have sweeping vistas of the plains or the towering trees of the forests.

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Red-winged blackbird chasing a red-tailed hawk so closely that it could tug on the hawk's tail feathers. Red-tailed hawk is a light morph, with classic red-tailed markings: dark leading edge of wing, dark comma under wing and mottled belly band. NOTE: Light morph red-taileds DO NOT HAVE A RED TAIL. They do have a dark head and trailing edge of the wing.

A red-tailed hawk being chased away from the nesting area by a very angry red-winged blackbird.
One of the very hardest things for me to learn about red-taileds is that a light morph R-T hawk DOES NOT ALWAYS HAVE A RED TAIL.
Stupid birds.
#birdsofbluesky #birdsofColorado 🦅🦜

Mountain Bluebird. Colorado.

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A nice little <4 mile walk to see water fowl and hopes of seeing a bald eagle. The bald eagle flew over too quickly to get a good pic of them, but still great views and a sunny clear day. #birds #birdsofcolorado #baldeagles

Hawks are seen all over the place even in the winter around the Denver suburbs.

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Goldeneyes are also fairly common in the lakes, rivers and streams around the Denver suburbs.

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After moving from the east coast to Colorado, I am very happy to see Hooded Mergansers in most all our rivers and streams around the Denver suburbs.

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When I was lucky enough to walk by a young Golden Eagle eating what looked to be a prairie dog by Bear Creek in Lakewood, CO

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My first post here. Hi! 2025 has brought the first #AmericanKestrel to our yard. I thought he was snacking on a sparrow, but the lack of feathers made it more likely a mouse. #birds #birdsofcolorado

This was from last week's snowstorm in Colorado. The eagles were so active that day; it was one of my best days photographing them.
Canon R6
500mm f/4L
1/2500 f/5.6 ISO 1250
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A Northern Flicker is perched on the bare branch of a dead juniper tree. It is facing away from the camera in front of vertical canyon walls, showing the speckled back feathers and characteristic red cheek patch.

Northern Flicker, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado. October 1, 2021.

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