Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
A two day quest to find some big bucks! (but instead I found some great birds and bugs)!
Enjoy a few photos from my two days at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal last week - then sign up to join me at an outing coming up on August 28!
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Blue Dasher dragonfly
Clouded yellow butterfly
Western bee-fly
American white pelicans and snowy egret
Double-crested cormorant with huge catfish!
Young sage thrasher
Bison!
Coyote pup
Western kingbird
Rocky mountain beeplant with bee
Ambush bug on sunflower
Bee-fly
Cattail caterpillar
Giant silk moth caterpillar
Milkweed beetle
Blue vervain
Female blue grosbeak
House finches
Western wood pewee fledgling
Nice whiltetail bucks
Large mule deer buck
BIG whitetail
Tree crickets on sunflower
Loggerhead shrike *a nice surprise!
Loggerhead Shrike, a.k.a. The Butcher Bird, eating a grasshopper. These birds impale their prey on sharp sticks/barbs or on barb wire. They may impale prey along a boundary line to announce their territory. They have also been known to impale other small birds that may be intruding into their territory to send a message. They are vicious and so cool!