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Savannah Sparrow – Steamboat Lake, Colorado

Perhaps Beethoven’s 5th could have been an all together different experience, if he had strolled along a Coloradoan grassland rather than the Prater Park in Vienna. For it is claimed that the...

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Yellow beats the red wings of a blackbird

There is always one bird wherever you travel in the world that you just get kind of fed up with. Bulbuls in Turkey, Juncos in  British Columbia and, to be h0nest the Red-winged Blackbird everywhere in...

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Gropper of the Prairies rasps from the wire

The Grasshopper warbler of Europe has a namesake in North America, although it is in fact a new world sparrow. UK birders call the Grasshopper warbler a ‘gropper’ and he has a long electric cable like...

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Chirpers at Sunlight Mountains – Cassin’s Finch and Siskin

The Cassin’s Finch (Carpodacus cassinii) was beneath the veranda coming to feed on the spellings from the feeder above. First  a male and then a female joined in. They gave me the best views of this...

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Purple Martin, Aspen Grove, Sunlight, Colorado

The Purple Martins (Progne subis) gave themselves away with loud ‘chortles’ and ‘rattles; emanating from the Aspen grove high above Sunlight Mountain Ski resort. The previous day I had scale the steep...

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Blanding’s Finch, Green-tailed Towhee at Dinosaur, Colorado

The ‘Blanding’s finch was in a bush high on Harper’s Point in the Dinosaur National Monument. No longer referred to as a Finch or named after Blanding, the Green-tailed towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) can be...

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Western kingbird, Arkansas flycatcher, Chlowish-pil

The Western kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) hangs out along the roads of Colorado, as it does all across Western North America. It appears the bird is one of the a success story  as it has been...

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White Pelican high in on a mountain lake – Colorado

For a European birdwatcher, a Pelican is an exotic sounding bird. A bird of the tropics and the Mediterranean. To see them high on a mountain lake in the High Rockies of Colorado, of course is no...

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Clark’s Crow, high in the mountains above sunlight

The Clark’s ‘crow‘, perched on the tall pine, perused the the forests of the sunlight mountains. Although crows can have an ominous air about them these birds have an endearing quality. There is a...

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Barred Antshrikes – Birding Brazil

Barred Antshrikes were hot on my list of birds to see in Central Brazil. To accompany my blog posts on my trip I am going to run a series of bird photography posts. Photos – Barred Antshrike –...

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