Showing posts with label Cooper Mountain Nature Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooper Mountain Nature Park. Show all posts

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Tree Swallow

While on the trail at Cooper Mountain Nature Park I came upon an open meadow area. I typically don't find as many birds in open areas, but on this occasion I notice a couple of tree swallows swooping around, at one point perching at the top of a pine. They were typically quite a ways from me and they flew quite fast, but I tried my best to keep up with them. None of the pictures are technically very good, but each shows a little different aspect of the birds. I decided a posting of several of them was better than 1 or 2 mediocre ones.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Steller's Jay

By doing a little searching on the web, I found that there are a lot of nature parks, etc in the metro area. One such park is Cooper Mountain Nature Park. I took a quick hike around one of its trail loops. It's a very pretty, natural park, but I didn't see as many birds as I would have liked. I heard a lot though. I did get some nice shots of a couple of Steller's Jays. It was a warm sunny day, so this Jay's plumage was not ruffled like the one at Memorial Park a couple of weeks ago.