Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Walking up the dirt road in back of the house on December day, I saw these feathers. Obviously a Steller's jay had met a recent and vio...

Someone in my area left their anti-Prop. 127 sign up well past Election Day. First, let me say that I am still in the blogging game. There w...

  A few months ago, a veteran upland bird-hunter on Facebook asked people to list their favorite pocket knives. I have owned a few since I s...

  M ost birds, when you release them into the wild, take off like rockets. Owls at night, hawks and songbirds by the day — all the same.  No...

B ack in 2017, a columnist for the Taos News wrote about Pot Creek, the area's " best-kept secret archaeological site. " It w...

The S pring Creek Fire ripped through big parts of Costilla and Huerfano counties in southern Colorado in June-July 2018. Periodically I dri...

A bull moose in Colorado (Photo: Backcountry Hunters and Anglers) I personally never saw a Colorado moose until 2019 -- in North Park , of ...

    From All About Birds , Cornell University's great birding site (I rely on it a lot), comes a review of pocket binoculars: " Our...

The northern border of the Chihuahan Desert in is (very roughly) US 50 and the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado. It forms an "...

I was out crawling around in the scrub oaks looking for mushrooms earlier, and I found this nest.  (As for mushrooms, a few elderly Shaggy P...

Two reliable guidebooks — and some elderly Shaggy Parasols A post on X-formerly-Twitter two days ago linked to another post on Reddit that ...

The 2011 Sand Gulch Fire on the San Isabel NF just before it blew up to 2500 acres.  If you wonder where wildfires ignite in Colorado, follo...

Last April, while visiting the Virginia coast for my wife's family reunion (more on that below), I held out for the one thing that I wan...

  '"Type O — yes !" O ne day a few years ago, my wife and I were walking one summer's afternoon along the Riverwalk in Cañ...

I leaned my spinning rod against a milkweed and then saw that someone was already there. It's a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, but I am n...