Photowalk: Coyote Ridge
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Located 15 minutes south of Fort Collins, Coyote Ridge is a natural area consisting if a couple hundred acres of prairie. A trail runs from the road up across several ridges. Today, I walked to the base of the second ridge before coming back. I’ll make the full hike to the end some time in the future.
The weather today was overcast and gloomy, so my camera was straining with the available light. Still, I took a few nice photos. Here’s the walk from start to finish, with narration and seventeen photos:
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Daily Photo: Puffed Oriole
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More orioles, because they posed pretty and let me take their picture, so I had to oblige them with posts on the blog. You understand, right?
Daily Photo: Another hatch
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This is not the same family as before. For one, the goslings are much older. They’re still pretty cute though. Right now, everywhere I go, I see families of geese. It seems like they almost always have four to five goslings in their hatches.
What I particularly like about this shot is the way the water looks like chiseled glass, or paint on a canvas. That’s not post. That’s really how the water turned out. A little bit of choppiness and wind seems to have a neat effect.
Daily Photo: Buzzard
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This weekend was a bust for photography. I’ve been trying to branch out and explore other natural areas in town. The side effect of this is, I don’t know where the animals are, or even if they’re out there. On both Saturday and Sunday, it was also very, very cold and windy, so I think those conditions added to my failure to find much of anything mobile to capture.
These guys are everywhere in the northern part of town. I see them roosting just a few blocks away from where i live. They’re a gang, composed of perhaps a dozen individuals, never seen far from one another. While I was out on Sunday, up on the banks of the Poudre looking for herons, they came swooping low overhead, one after another, so I got to try to take plenty of shots at them. This is the one that I thought turned out the best.
