Stayed over for a night to enjoy time with Brandon and Desiree. Brandon was up at dawn to show me the Rocky Mountain Elk which fade back into the forest shortly after the sun rises.
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Nature Ali’s Grand Adventure – Florissant, CO to mid-Kansas – Day 6, June 25th.
Posted in Birds, Brandon, Butterflies, Colorado, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Fossils, Geology, Grand Adventure, Kansas, Mammals, Reptiles, tagged common ringlet, Desiree, eastern birds, eastern cottontail, fossil bugs, Fossil redwoods, Gunnison prairie dog, life bird, Orchard Oriole, Richardson's ground squirrel, Snider on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nature Ali’s Grand Adventure – Florissant – Cripple Creek, CO – Day 5, June 24th.
Posted in Birds, Brandon, Colorado, Grand Adventure, Mammals, Wildlife, tagged Cordilleran Flycatcher, Cripple Creek, gambling, Platt River, prairie dogs on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I thought the kids had bought a house I had been to but didn’t recognize the place the GPS steered me to, fact was I had not been to the house before, it was a different one than I knew. A knock at the window by my daughter-in-law at 6 a.m. tells me my GPS [...]
Nature Ali’s Grand Adventure – Arches National Park to Florissant, CO – Day 4, June 23rd.
Posted in Arches National Park, Birds, Colorado, Fossils, Geology, Grand Adventure, National Parks/Preserves/Refuges, Nature, Utah, tagged Arches National Park, lizards, Nature Ali, Peregrine Falcon on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I slept in until 6:30 a.m. at my Moab motel room and then did some photo housekeeping so I didn’t get into Arches National Park until 10:30 a.m. I was worried I had blown the best light of the day, but my friend, Mother Nature gave me a break with lovely clouds and even a [...]
