I’ve never visited Tyson and his family mid-summer,so I didn’t know what to expect in the way of birding. When I arrived, I also learned that they had plowed the field across from their house so they could set off fireworks without danger of fire.
For whatever reason, I only saw a single Red-Winged Blackbird and two Red-Shafted Flickers, all of which avoided my camera. All I ended up during my hour-long walk was this shot of a grasshopper.
Thankfully, the birding was a little better the next morning when I took Logan out to breakfast and birding at Dry Creek. Of course, we saw more Prairie Dogs
than anything else, but since I only see them when I’m in Colorado I don’t mind spending some time trying to get a good shot.
Actually, we might have seen more Cliff Swallows
than Prairie Dogs, but they were flying so fast I never got any kind of exact count of them.
We saw several Magpies in the distance, but this shot of one on a telephone pole was the only one I thought worth keeping.
I had hoped to get a shot of the pair of Swainson Hawks I had seen here previously, but ended up getting a shot of this juvenile.
Considering my luck the day before, I was elated that I’d managed to find more birds while birding with Logan.
Mira and Kylan are very impressed! Love the dogs…
Some very nice shots. The prairie dogs are just precious.