Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Oh, the disapproval of young Cooper’s hawks! Snapped a pic of this one through a window - she was probably asking to speak to a manager.

Did eventually get a marginally better pic of the bald eagle at the tiny lake, who it turned out had a companion in a nearby cottonwood tree. So not a total loner, I guess :-)

More of our winter hordes:

Hmm, I cropped a version to look a little better but didn’t attach it. In any case, the funny thing was that an hour before, in the absence of the eagle, the enormous flock of geese had been right where the eagle was in this picture:

In my area, there is another spectrum of winter birding - loner vs. massive horde. A (terrible, sorry) pic from today shows both ends - note the crowd of Canada geese on the opposite shore from the bald eagle:

Ooh, great pictures! They remind me of another magical mass encounter - swarming caddisflies! For only a couple of nights this June, they were so thick over a local lake at night that you could see the breeze blow eddies in them.

Cool! I’d never been before visiting for the birding festival this year. Also, apparently bald eagles don’t exactly need a *lot* of water as I observed with this epically crappy photo by a tiny lake:

Hi, just followed! I love to walk around in Colorado and take crappy pictures of the local wildlife with my phone :-) (Have some white pelicans)

Our household decided at the last minute to put out a container, so I picked these up at the grocery store for something like $10 for two. So far kids have only taken the candy

A grumpy juvenile Cooper’s hawk - well, she was *trying* to be scary, anyway

A hollyhock that was growing alongside a drainage ditch by the side of the road in Erie, CO :-)

They are! This was the moth, just resting (I saw him hovering around the Daphne blooms later that evening)

I might give up on the water plants and just use the rocks stacked in the basin for giving the toads something interesting. But it’s a funny thing about the toads - they won’t trigger our trail cam at night, but if something else triggers it, they can show up (note the little guy in the “pond”)

(Our own dapper little visitor:)

OK, this was a funny sequence on my timeline:

I went out to check my trail cam one day in May and found this little bold jumping spider on it! Just barely had time to snap his picture before he jumped onto my phone :-)

Not very new, but just posted this pic elsewhere and thought it apt! From earlier this summer, a local bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens):

Oh, what lovely little guys and fantastic photography! While I cannot hope to match the quality of your images, I just have to share our fancy local bicolored striped sweat bee: