Wildlife & Related

[HoneyBadger]

Thanks for the info. We have lots of hummingbirds in this area, but most of their food sources are very small flowers. We have at least two that visit us several times a day and our kids love watching them buzz around. Sometimes they get very close to us and I always instruct HB Jr to stay very still when they do. Last week, one hovered about 2 ft in front of his face for 10-15 seconds while it appeared to check him out. He loved it!

In 2012, when I lived in this same area in CA for a few months, I took a few pretty good pictures in an area just outside my apartment. I'll see if I can dig them up.

[Irving]

I saw about 4 or 5 bull elk standing in a field on my way to Loveland today. Just out in the open. They seemed very out of place. Pictures will probably be terrible, but I'll post them when I get home.

[Irving]

Sorry for the photo quality, I was driving. This was on the South side of 402 some where between I-25 and 287, at about 6:40ish am. A bunch of bulls with big full racks was the last thing I was expecting to see right out in the open like that.

[Irving]

Updated my post with pictures.

[spyder]

[Bailey Guns]

Wow... You guys are posting some good stuff. Love the h-bird photos and the little ducks and owls. And the elk...doesn't look like where you'd normally think about seeing elk. Good stuff.

[Mazin]

Here's my garage garage guest from the other day. Little guy came in and stayed for about two nights and left. The women in the house is who left the dish of water and couple prices of dog food btw. He could have fit in the palm of my hand.
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[Irving]

Wife got a few decent cell phone pictures of pelicans at Barr Lake the other day. Pretty fun watching all the different birds flying around. A couple times several hundred birds would fly back and forth across the lake all at once. Took more than a minute each time for them all to fly past.

[Hummer]

Love the American White Pelicans. Watching a group of pelicans herd fish on a lake is pretty amazing. I know they're common on the plains of northeast CO, but pelicans are unusual on the West Slope. I've only seen a few here.

[Bailey Guns]

Funny you posted the pelican picture. There are a group of them on the Snake River I've been trying to get some pictures of. Fascinating to watch them fly. They're far more graceful in the air than you'd think they'd be watching them on the water or just looking at them.