Author: Steve

  Final tally:  50 birds   Canada goose Mallard Blue winged teal Pied billed grebe Western grebe White pelican Double crested cormorant Great blue heron Great egret Snowy egret Green heron Black crowned night heron Turkey vulture Osprey Northern harrier Swainson’s hawk Red tailed hawk American kestrel Killdeer Spotted sandpiper Ring billed gull Eurasian collared dove Mourning dove Great horned owl Black chinned hummingbird Belted kingfisher Northern flicker Western wood pewee Western kingbird Eastern kingbird Black billed magpie Horned lark Northern rough winged swallow Bank swallow Cliff swallow Barn swallow American robin European starling Yellow warbler Common yellowthroat Red winged blackbird Western meadowlark Yellow headed blackbird Common grackle Brown headed cowbird Orchard oriole Bullock’s oriole House finch American goldfinch House sparrow  

  …about mosquitoes.   Wilderness hiking, you come across a swarm of mosquitoes, just waiting for you to stumble along so they can devour you.  Do you ever wonder “If there is no-one else around for a hundred miles, what did all those bloodsuckers eat while they were waiting for me to come along?”     Sunset at St Vrain.    

  And Austin too….

  Some see a family resemblance between Steve in 1950 and grandson Alex 59 years later.