Nature speaks more eloquently than words and here are some wintry impressions (or expressions) from two different January visits to one of my favorite local destinations, Fountain Creek Regional Park, where Fountain Creek reigns supreme and showed itself from its fabulously frosty side. To enlarge a photo, click on it.
World Wetlands Day has its origins in the 1971 Convention of Wetlands and started to be celebrated officially in 1997 each February 2, the anniversary of the original convention. Since 2021, it has also been adopted by the United Nations. From the World Wetlands Day website comes the following information: Nearly 90% of the world’s … Continue reading World Wetlands Day
There is a tree cavity at Fountain Creek Regional Park just south of Colorado Springs which has served as raccoon nursery for a number of years and I never walk past it without taking a look. The Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor) is native only to the Americas and is usually nocturnal, except during the breeding … Continue reading Nursery Notes
Do you have a “happy place” you return to time and again? I have several, a circumstance I’m extremely grateful for. One of the places I have written about more than once, is Fountain Creek Regional Park. Situated in Fountain, a town just south of Colorado Springs, and along Fountain Creek, our major regional stream, … Continue reading One of my Happy Places: Fountain Creek Regional Park
Virginia Rails are known as solitary and secretive denizens of marshes (their scientific name Rallus limicola literally translates as mud-dwelling rail), but during certain seasons they seem to forget about their secretive natures and not only show their furtive selves to appreciative eyes, but even convene for rail parties. Contrary to their name’s suggestion, their … Continue reading Rail Fest
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