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Life in Nature

Season’s song

The iconic call of the wild—the elk bugle

Vanity Fair?

We’ve all seen birds do it at some point in our lives

The beast behind the beauty

A deeper understanding of our amazing hummingbirds

It’s electric!

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A land transformed

Beavers are transforming a local mountain valley benefiting wildlife

The color of life

Brilliant colors of birds come from pigments, feather structure and the unique ways they perceive light

Going against the flow

Nuthatches are the only birds that can walk headfirst down tree trunks

Season of the wobbly ones

As moose calving season begins, locals and hikers are urged to keep dogs leashed

Family time!

Rare fox den near Nederland shows two female foxes raising seven kits

Broad-tailed hummingbirds have returned to the Front Range

Life in Nature: Psss psss psss

Big cats tend to take the spotlight when it comes to talking of our local feline neighbors (for good reasons due to their sometimes-nefarious behavior).

Pasque flowers are blooming and the mountain bluebirds have returned.

Emerging from winter is often symbolized by a scruffy and unkempt look due to being pent up in the cabin for months.

It has been said that at one time “the plains were black and appeared to be moving.

While winter activity in the wild might seem to hunker down for the season, life still goes on.

Life in Nature: Lords of Winter

Light snow falls from the sky into the woodland clearing as the day’s remaining sun makes its way through the somber gray clouds slowly drifting over the peaks above.

While many birds fly south for the winter, others flock to Colorado

Life in Nature: A year of growing and knowing

Well, here we are once again, bidding farewell to one year and preparing to enter the next!

Life in Nature: Where did I put that seed?

Mountain chickadees can locate food stashes with astonishing accuracy

Life in Nature: Autumn icon

As autumn arrives in Colorado, the thunderous head-butts of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep echo through Waterton Canyon, signaling the dramatic rutting season.

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