This little screech owl was seen acting as though it was ill or injured about 3 weeks ago by one of my neighbors. She called our local wildlife officer who secured it in a box and was trying to get help transporting it to the Pueblo Raptor Center that is located about 35 miles away. [...]

This male Hooded Oriole is truly eye-candy! It’s bright orange body is offset by contrasting black mask, bib and tail plus black wings with two white wing bars. I think they are just stunning. Hooded Orioles are primarily a southwestern bird species. It’s range is from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas on the east, [...]

Just a play on words–this very blue heron is called a Little Blue Heron. These beauties are most slate blue thought their necks and heads are a maroon color. Their bills are bluish with a black tip and sometimes their legs are even blue. They are much smaller, only about 2 feet tall, than Great [...]

Bohemian Waxwings are the very northern cousins of the better known Cedar Waxwings. Both are ‘irruptive’- that is, they appear irregularly as they follow insect and fruit food sources. They breed in parts of Alaska and far northwest Canada during the summer then usually move to more southern parts of Canada and parts of the [...]