True Blue...COLORADO FLASHBACK (May)

With the last two days being dominated by meeting indoors, and lots of "gripping" photos of birdins I wanted to see outdoors at Magee Marsh (Ohio), my photo opportunities and birding chances have been none. So here is a photo from my short trip earlier in the month in Colorado with fellow guides Andrew Spencer and Nick Athanas. One of my many obsessions was to find a Mountain Bluebird. To find one posing so beautifully in the snow was just fantastic. In just a few weeks I saw all the three bluebirds, with a Western near Denver (CO), and more recently an Eastern Bluebird was seen hanging about behind Ottawa NWR (Ohio), that has seemed to so far avoid all the purpose built nest boxes this spring (the Tree Swallows taking full advantage of this lapse from the bluebird). However, my current favorite this "true blue" trio is this mountain-loving turquoise dream looking sharp in the white snowscapes of Colorado in springtime...

Still got a few days left in Magee Marsh Ohio, and tomorrow I hit the boardwalk again. Hoping for a late Kirtland's, although would be happy to catch up with one of today's Connecticut's also...