December 2007
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By
Eric on
December 15, 2007
While hiking in the Garden of the Gods in August, I thought it would be great to return after some snow had fallen. (Very) Early this morning I got the chance to return to the Garden! Though I was surprised to not find as much snow had fallen in the Colorado Springs area as had [...]
Posted in Garden of the Gods, Hiking
By
Eric on
December 9, 2007
Shortly after the fox photo-op, I came across this red-tailed hawk. It’s much larger than I thought a hawk would be, but then again, birds of this size are very hard to come by back in the northeast.
Posted in Nature Walks, Wildlife
By
Eric on
December 9, 2007
I was out on the Highline Canal bike/multipurpose path this morning getting some exercise and enjoying the newly fallen snow when I came across this guy:
I’ve seen him before near the horse farm just after crossing Mineral Street in Littleton. He tends to hang out there quite often. Last time I saw him, he was too [...]
Posted in Nature Walks, Wildlife
By
Eric on
December 1, 2007
A year ago this past May (so, May 2006) I headed up to Saratoga Springs, NY to try to get a picture of the rather legendary Karner Blue Butterfly. Well, I only saw one and it was too quick for me to shoot with my Canon S400 Powershot Digital Elph. Even before that day, I [...]
Posted in RMNP, Wildlife
By
Eric on
December 1, 2007
These two were also around Cub Lake during the hike described in the early post today. I did make some adjustment to the photos aside from cropping. I adjusted the shadows on the birds body so you could see it better and darkened the highlights so the sky was more of the natural blue it [...]
Posted in RMNP, Wildlife
By
Eric on
December 1, 2007
I decided to change the header to something to fit with the season a little better. The new header is from a hike up to Gem Lake with Outdoor Eyes. This was about halfway up to Gem Lake along Lumpy Ridge, which is along the northeast corner of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The old (and original) header [...]
Posted in General
By
Eric on
December 1, 2007
These photos are from the Cub Lake hike with Outdoor Eyes. As we settled down near some rocks along the lake for some lunch, they came over to join us
This first one is a Stellar Jay
The next two are Gray Jays
And another Gray Jay in the trees
Posted in Hiking, RMNP, Wildlife