Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Mountain bluebird — not what I was seeing (Cornell University). After my experience while mushroom-hunting last August, I am half expe...

Mountain lion — or cougar, if you prefer. (Colorado Parks and Wildlife) I have had some mountain lion encounters, none of them this bad,...

Some footage from Colorado Parks & Wildlife's ongoing efforts to re-establish lesser prairie chickens on the Comanche National Gra...

If I were a landscape painter (like Dad), I would try to do more with this than just a photo. Golden banner ( Thermopsis divari...

"Needle drop" is normal with ponderosa pines and other conifers. The pine's needles last two or three years before falling of...

Yellow-blossom cholla cactus , dead Gambel oak, one-seed juniper, barbed wire, old sun-baked tires, pile of rusty tin cans. If it can s...

The past has just turned into the future again. Back in 2006, Colorado began to require "habitat stamps" with hunting and fishing...

Up in my county seat, a high-school senior, a 90-something resident, and some small children have somehow earned "social-distancing...

Crow with tool (Cornell University). Corvids (crows, magpies, ravens, jays) are smart birds. So are parrots. But what I notice is that t...

Cameras and lenses used by Karel Hájek. The Irish setter shows up in a lot of photos, but I am not sure if it was his dog or someone els...

Spring is an iffy business on the Eastern Slope of the Rockies. Dad had one all-purpose adjective for it: "putrid." There are...

Bagged piñon nuts for sale by a roadside vendor. The "Lemonade Stand Rule" originated when I was driving one time on US 20 acr...

Some  late-season pinon cone with some nuts. You can see where the birds (jays?) chopped out other nuts, so why did they leave these? May...

All the worries these days . So here is James McMurtry's " Choctaw Bingo ." You know who his daddy is , right? I mainly li...

The highway goes over this little crest and then turns down and left. If you don't turn left too, bad things happen. With a title ...