Nature Continues to Amaze Me!

I haven’t written in a while. I’m trying to adjust to a change in medication dosage, and I’m OK one day, but not the next.  But I did take time yesterday to sit down and choose some photos from the past month or so to share with y’all.

Spring was especially beautiful this year because we got enough snow and rain over the Winter to ensure that there will not be a drought this year.  Trees and grasses are green and lush, and the birds and other animals have had a great time–some of them deciding to nest and stay in areas where they are not always present.  Of course, none of them decided to stay near my home, but I did manage to get to see some by traveling a bit. My favorites, by far, were the baby Pied-billed Grebes.  And I’m hoping to visit some new places this week,  But, in the meantime, I wanted to post a few of my favorite photos.

Ferruginous Hawk resting on one leg

Beautiful Yellow Wildflowers

Western Painted Turtles

Mourning doves

Pied-billed Grebe Momma and Babies

Pine Cones lit by the sun

Pied -billed Grebe carrying a tasty treat to her babies

Canadian Gosling

Bald Eagles parenting their Eaglets

Pied-billed Grebe Momma and Babies

Noisy Bullfrog hiding in plain site

Dragonflies

Pied-billed Grebe Momma and Babies

Sweet and tiny little wildflowers

Pied-billed Grebe Momma and Babies

Pine Cones sprouting

Ruby Crowned Kinglet

Pine Cone sprouts

Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker

Pied-billed Grebe Momma

Baby Pine Cpones

Baby Pied-billed Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe Momma and Babies

Osprey in a regal pose

Lovage

Mamma Goose herding her Goslings

American White Pelicans soaring toward the sun

American White Pelican on Barr Lake with the Rockies in the background

Pied-billed Grebe Momma

Pied-billed Grebe Momma

Penstemon

Pied-billed Grebe Momma

Magpie posing for a photo

A different kind of Pine Cone

Pied-billed Grebe Momma and Babies

American Robin after catching a feast

Pied -billed Grebe carrying a tasty treat to her babies

Yellow Toadflax

Bullfrog Tadpole

Another Noisy Bullforg

Female Brown-headed Cowbird

Eastern Kingbird and Common Grackle

Butterfly on a yellow wildflower

American White Pelican coming in for a landing

Noisy Bullfrog smelling the flowers

Bullock’s Oriole shaking off after a dip in the lake

Noisy Bullfrog