Southern Rockies Nature Blog

A ristra in the kitchen, slowly disappearing.

Video from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The projecting beam caught fire, which was luckily caught by firefighters working in the area.

Having driven out of the hills and onto the prairie, we stopped for a short break before going on to Pueblo.

It's a long way from the Southern Rockies, but this video fits the June 20 theme of "predators and fawns/calves."

The suspect makes his first pre-dawn appearance.

A week ago, Marco the Chessie and I were walking up a pedestrian-bike trail that goes trough "open space" by the Walking Stock golf course in northeast Pueblo.

Paddleboarders on the Arkansas (Colorado Parks & Wildlife) Today's Colorado Sun reports that the low snowpack -- 24 percent for the Arkansas River basin -- means low runoff and a shorter season for the rafting companies: There are about 45 river outfitters

I read once about this Appalachian doctor who told a patient to take a certain medicine in the winter and to keep taking it "until snakes crawl" -- in other words, until warm spring weather.

Antero Reservoir (Colorado Parks & Wildlife Antero Reservoir, one of the two "saucer" reservoirs in South Park, as I like to think of them, is being drained to save water in the current drought.

Marco checks out a muddy arroyo in Huerfano County.

Something there is that does not like a yellowjacket -- but loves to tear up the nests and eat fat larvae. * * * This was a rough autumn in Wasp World.

I'm using the broad definition, not the Kansas-centric one.

A couple of days ago, I checked the trail camera nearest the house, located about 80 yards up the ridge in back.

A straight road in the Pawnee Nat.

The Northern Lights seen in eastern Colorado (Colorado Parks and Wildlife).

The last bobcat, ready to be sent to his new temporary home.

Search dog and handler (Front Range Rescue Dogs) A recent article in the online Colorado Sun by Jason Blevins describes how Vail Mountain Rescue Group member Erika German used twenty-year old maps and reports to develop a new search strategy for the remai…

The lone horse grazes at the Blue Heron Ponds near Florence, Colo.

Search and rescue volunteers are briefed before heading out.

Oshman's 7 x 35 um . . . optical instrument I inherited this/these from my stepmother, Catharine.

Young porcupine at a rehabilitation center in Colorado.

I've always looked out for her virtue, but I went into a shopping mall Barnes & Noble, and when I came out, Blanca, my refrigerator-white Jeep Wrangler Unlimited (that's the 4-door version) had lost her virtue.

"Displacement of eroded sandstone by Ursus americanus."

The bobcats in June, hostile and ready to go wild.

Close-up of buffalo in a squeeze chute.