Local Owl

The big yellow gapes are back in town. Ferruginous hawk Commerce City #birds #Colorado #raptors

Dark eyed junco, outside Creede #birds #colorado

At a barn owl presentation and wild owlet banding in Loveland today #birds #colorado #owls

Mammatus #clouds

And this is why you brave the mosquitoes

Northern Saw-whet Owl. Painting in paint program Krita 5.2.13. No AI was used. #owl #owls

I have been playing with Krita, a paint program, and put together an eastern screech owlet. No AI. #owl

Feisty cloud is feisty

Black morel, Front Range #mushrooms #colorado

Tree swallows Rollins Pass Road #birds #colorado

Badger #colorado

Prairie dog younguns Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #colorado

Tree swallow, Rollins Pass Road #birds #colorado

Robin #birds #colorado

Swainsons hawk says... #birds #colorado #raptors

Excuse my bad phone photos from a quarter mile away. An osprey drove off a bald eagle eating a snake on an old, unused osprey platform. No photos of the conflict but there is definitely a good size comparison between the two birds. Eagle on left; osprey on right. #birds #colorado #raptors

Cloud iridescence, Colorado high country #clouds

Pine squirrel #squirrels

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Sentinel Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #bison

Step aside, Marilyn Monroe! Ferruginous hawk getting a breeze up the skirt. #birds #colorado #raptors

By Canadian cartoonist, Michael de Adder in Globe and Mail. Aligns perfectly with de Adder's jab at public disinterest in Melania's documentary. #cartoon #Melania

Subtle cloud iridescence Colorado high country #clouds

Ohhh give me a home where the buffalo roam... #colorado

Last night's Aurora Borealis over Greenland.

Ferruginous hawk, Commerce City, Colorado #birds #colorado #raptors

Merlin, Commerce City, Colorado #birds #colorado #raptors

Northern saw-whet owl, Minnesota #birds #owls #raptors

Ferruginous hawk Commerce City, Colorado #birds #colorado #raptors

Cloud iridescence, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park

I'm really feeling judged this morning... Clark's nutcracker #birds #colorado

So I saw two people having a light saber duel on one of the Great Lakes yesterday... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRJo...

As someone who used to love ancient world military history, it astounds me that the patriarchy has fallen from the movement that created Cyrus and Alexander to now stumbling over each other to appease a blathering idiot who would eat his own poop if the thought appealed to him.

Random photo from high country

Ferruginous hawk Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #birds #colorado #raptors

Evening grosbeaks #birds #colorado

Ferruginous hawk, Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #birds #colorado #raptors

From Meta:

Crooks Palace, Black Hawk, Colorado

Night

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The ketchup is a-flying!

Joyous

Full moon

Helium balloon, Littleton, Colorado

Frost on leaf edge. Littleton, Colorado

Frosted maple leaf. Littleton, Colorado

These are called watermelons. They are calcite sandwiched by chalcedony. Under UV, they glow green and pink, hence watermelon. #rocks