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Horned Lark puffs up against the cold

January 11, 2016 by Tony Leave a Comment

I don’t normally take pictures of ‘little birds’ but I simply had to train my camera on this guy. Temperatures yesterday morning were in the single digits and a thick hoar frost had covered the Colorado plains while the Rocky #Mountains were blanketed in fresh snow.

Small birds tend to be quite skittish but the cold seemed to have this guy unwilling to fly and he was quite willing to pose for me as he huddled on a barbed wire fence. Unfortunately he never did raise his ‘horns’ – little sections of black feathers on the back of the head – but he was quite photogenic even without.

A Horned Lark sits on a frost covered fence with the Rocky Mountains in the background.  (© Tony’s Takes)
A Horned Lark sits on a frost covered fence with the Rocky Mountains in the background. (© Tony’s Takes)

Horned Lark

February 23, 2015 by Tony Leave a Comment

I don’t normally take pictures of little birds but these are pretty cool so I couldn’t resist. Found across all of North America, they are typically found in open country where there is little vegetation. They have a very pleasant song / chirp. Learn more here.

A Horned Lark sits on a sign pole north of Denver, Colorado. (© Tony’s Takes)
A Horned Lark sits on a sign pole north of Denver, Colorado. (© Tony’s Takes)

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