Never one to visit someplace and not take my camera along, we wandered out to the Pueblo Reservoir (though not quite to the reservoir itself, but the park right on the edge of it in Pueblo), and also drove through Pueblo Mountain Park in Beulah. Not a bunch of different species, but some very desirable raptors and a new junco for me.

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Twenty-four photos of a Surf Scoter, Ruddy Ducks, a Red-Shafted Flicker, a Prairie Falcon, Mule Deer, Long-Billed Curlew, a Great Horned Owl, and American Pipits ( under the cut... )

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As promised, the photos from our trip to the Bear River Refuge the other day. I swear I am going to get better about this. ( 35 pictures under the cut... )

Productive morning at the Sandy Fishing pond. Cooper's hawk, cedar waxwings, belted kingfisher, swallows, and goldfinches, among others! ( Follow the bouncing LJ cut for 27 photos... )

The kingfishers were the highlight of the trip. I've gone all year without seeing one and then saw three in one day. It was awesome. Image heavy, so under the cut they go.

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Turns out I had forty-one photos I really liked from yesterday's outing. I'm going to split them into three posts because I know some people still have slow internet. And ( Under the cut they go! )