Ever since moving to Colorado, I’ve noticed birds a great deal more than when I lived in Kansas. Here it is common to see bald eagle on your daily drive to work, or osprey while walking to the farmer’s market.
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Evidently…in late summer each year juvenile blue jays exhibit a very unusual molt pattern. The things you notice when you have a bird feeder 
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| ExposureTime | 1/800 |
| FNumber | 5.6 |
| Description | Evidently…in late summer each year juveniles blue jays exhibit a very unusual molt pattern. The things you notice when you have a bird feeder |
| Title | Bald Blue Jay |
| FocalLength | 400.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-08-25 13:16:00 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 1100 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Hummingbird that frequents my feeder. Sounds like a little UFO zooming around my backyard.
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| ExposureTime | 1/1000 |
| FNumber | 5.6 |
| Description | Hummingbird that frequents my feeder. Sounds like a little UFO zooming around my backyard. |
| Title | Adult male broad-tailed hummingbird |
| FocalLength | 400.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-08-07 16:33:25 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 3200 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Super tiny bird that kept attacking its reflection in the window of my office. I went outside and there were a group of these tiny birds in my bushes. I think it is a bushtit.
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| ExposureTime | 1/500 |
| FNumber | 2.8 |
| Description | Super tiny bird that kept attacking its reflection in the window of my office. I went outside and there were a group of these tiny birds in my bushes. I think it is a bushtit. |
| Title | Bushtit |
| FocalLength | 200.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-06-16 10:45:51 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 560 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Osprey sitting on a pole on the North East side of Cattail Pond in Longmont, Colorado.
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| ExposureTime | 1/1600 |
| FNumber | 5.6 |
| Description | Osprey sitting on a pole on the North East side of Cattail Pond in Longmont, Colorado. |
| Title | Osprey at Boulder County Fairgrounds |
| FocalLength | 200.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-05-06 19:05:52 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 800 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Male Western meadowlark on a fencepost at McIntosh Lake, Longmont, Coloardo.
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| ExposureTime | 1/320 |
| FNumber | 4.0 |
| Description | Male Western meadowlark on a fencepost at McIntosh Lake, Longmont, Coloardo. |
| Title | Male Western Meadowlark |
| FocalLength | 200.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-04-23 06:15:05 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Male red-winged blackbird against the sunrise at McIntosh Lake.
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| ExposureTime | 1/4000 |
| FNumber | 2.8 |
| Description | Male red-winged blackbird against the sunrise at McIntosh Lake. |
| Title | Red-Winged Blackbird Silhouette |
| FocalLength | 200.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-04-23 06:08:44 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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The house finch is pretty common at my bird feeder. This particular finch came to scope me out while a female house finch (not pictured) was investigating the far end of the feeder.
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| ExposureTime | 1/160 |
| FNumber | 4.0 |
| Description | The house finch is pretty common at my bird feeder. This particular finch came to scope me out while a female house finch (not pictured) was investigating the far end of the feeder. |
| Title | Male House Finch |
| FocalLength | 200.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-04-19 10:56:40 |
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 |
| ISO | 100 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Shot with a manual focus Nikon Nikkor 70-210mm f/4.5-5.6 that I got for $40. 210mm, f/4.5.
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| ExposureTime | 1/400 |
| FNumber | 0 |
| Description | Shot with a manual focus Nikon Nikkor 70-210mm f/4.5-5.6 that I got for $40. 210mm, f/4.5. |
| Title | Bald Eagle at Union Reservoir |
| FocalLength | 0.0 mm |
| CreateDate | 2017-03-04 08:34:49 |
| Lens | 0mm f/0 |
| ISO | 100 |
| Model | NIKON D610 |
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |
Life list ¶
An incomplete list of birds I have seen.
- American crow
- Very common, but still amazing.
- American robin
- Very common
- American kestrel
- Burch Lake, Longmont, CO – 2017-04-14
- Bald Eagle
- Union Resevoir – 2017-03-04
- Common at Roger’s Grove in Longmont
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Very common – always at my feeder
- Blacked-billed magpie
- Rocky Mountain National Park – 2017-06-03
- Blue Jay
- Very common (even bald ones)
- Broad-throated hummingbird
- Common at higher elevations/Rock Mountain National Park
- Bushtit
- At my office window – 2017-06-16 10:45:51
- Canada Goose
- Very common
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Startled some doves and I got a crappy photo 2018-02-14
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Common at my feeder
- Downey Woodpecker
- 2017-08-22
- Eurpoean starling
- Saw a lone starling (strange) at McIntosh lake
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- 2017-08-24 – pretty common at my feeder
- Gray Jay
- Rocky Mountain National Park – 2017-06-03
- Great blue heron
- Common at McIntosh lake
- House finch
- Very common – always at my feeder
- House wren
- 2020-05-19 – common, but I hadn’t identified it until today
- Killdeer
- Commmon at Roger’s grove, Longmont, CO
- Mallard
- Very common
- Mountain Chickadee
- Rocky Mountain National Park – 2017-06-03
- Northern Flicker
- 2017-09-23
- 2017-12-01
- Osprey
- Longmont has several nests
- Boulder County Fairgrounds - 2017-05-06
- Red Breasted Nuthatch
- Rocky Mountain National Park – 2017-06-03
- Backyard – 2018-04-04
- Red-winged blackbird
- Common at McIntosh Lake and Roger’s grove in Longmont, CO
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rocky Mountain National Park – 2017-06-03
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Rocky Mountain National Park – 2017-06-03
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Like to fight with the broad-throats at my feeder in the summer
- Steller’s Jay
- Common at higher elevations
- Turkey vulture
- Common – unfortunately used to live under a tree full
- Common – unfortunately used to live under a tree full
- Western Meadowlark
- Common
- McIntosh lake 2017-04-23
