Backyard birding and living at an apartment on the third floor may not seem to add up to most people. In my case, however, I was able to reconcile the two seemingly disparate concepts since I considered the entire M…M… community
MY backyard, park and pond included.
In this post, I would like to share images of the amazing feathered friends and 'accidental' creatures I was lucky to have captured this spring at the place we once called home.
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| The heavy traffic of house finches outside our window gave this secret away. Unfortunately, they were frightened by the maintenance work being carried out :-( |
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| Rusty Blackbirds procreating. A quick and what looked like a violent act of the couple's perpetuation of their genes. |
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| Canada Goose with future pooping machines :-) I'm sure they'll be as efficient as their parents. |
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| Belted Kingfisher swooping down for a meal. |
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| Highly successful at catching fish and crustaceans. |
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| Black-crowned Night-Heron. Not many people have ever seen one since the species is mostly active at night as the name suggests. He was hanging out with a Painted Turtle at that. We were lucky! |
Pete and I spotted a yellow bird with an orange head when we went out for his exercise walk one time. We thought it was a Western Tanager. I didn't have my camera with me then so we went back to the same place a few days later in the hopes of getting a glimpse of the golden bird again. No luck but something leapt to the pond and scared the bejesus out of me. The feeling might've been mutual.
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| I checked the Herpetofaunal Atlas of Colorado but I couldn't figure out what this guy was. Desperate for an answer, I contacted a herpetologist at the Division of Wildlife (I'm such a geek, aren't I?) |
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| Ms. T, the amphibian and reptile expert, said it's a non-native bullfrog and it's pretty common in the metro areas. |
