Photos from Colorado, Winter 05/06
Here's a bunch of bird pics (with some mammals tossed in just for fun)
from my trip home over the 2005-2006 Winter Break.
This is pretty much everything with the exception of some Elk photos taken on
my friend Becky's camera which I have yet to put up. Enjoy!!!
You can see a complete list of bird species for this trip if you click here.
Bird Photos
Cackling Goose: A few birds (richarsonii?), one with an oddly whitish supercillium.
Red-tailed Hawk: Includes a rufous/intermediate morph bird, Harlan's type bird, and others.
Ferruginous Hawk
Merlin
Prairie Falcon
DUNLIN
MEW GULL
Ring-billed Gull including an unusually dark individual.
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and some other "hard-to-ID" gull photos.
GLAUCOUS GULL
Eurasian Collard Dove
BURROWING OWL
Northern Flicker
BLACK PHOEBE
SAY'S PHOEBE
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike
Western Scrub-Jay
Rock Wren
Curve-billed Thrasher
American Tree Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco - all 5 Colorado races!
Other Wildlife Photos:
American Badger
Muskrat
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Cottontail Rabbit
Abert's Squirrel - both the normal/gray and black color morphs.
Fox Squirrel
I also took lots of climbing and hiking photos, including some shots of the 2006 Ouray Ice Climbing Competition. Check them out!!!
All Photos (C) 2005 Paul Hurtado
(Just let me know if you use them!)