SE Colorado Birding: Snowy Canon City

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Snowy Canon City

Though Canon City got up to 40 degrees yesterday there is still a lot of snow on the ground. I'm still sidelined as my knee was painful and stiff today. I took this photo last week when we got that 11" of snow. It is a photo of Canon City taken from the Dawson Ranch area,a sprawlette development on the southwest of town right in the middle of pinion-juniper habitat.

Cooper Mountain, much of it BLM land that is essential wildlife habitat, is in the distance. The city of Canon City is in the bottoms area--we are in a hole with mountain ranges on 3 sides.
SeEtta

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Why bird southeast Colorado?

From our high montane areas to the riparian areas along the Arkansas River as it exits Colorado, southeast Colorado offers birding opportunities for beginners to those serious birders who seek out the less common species. We have great shortgrass and sandsage prairie birding including public areas on the Comanche National Grasslands. We have wetlands including playa lakes (playas are important shallow, depressional wetlands that provide essential habitat for waterfowl and many other bird species). We have small lakes (such as Lake Cheraw north of La Junta)and large lakes (such as John Martin Reservoir that encompasses 35 square miles) that host an impressive diversity of bird species. And we have large expanses of pinyon-juniper woodlands with their special birding opportunities.

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Snowy Canon City

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