VENT tour of Colorado Grouse Leks and other spring specialities-2009 Photo Gallery by Tom Merigan at pbase.com

VENT tour of Colorado Grouse Leks and other spring specialities-2009

The was an 8 day Victor Emmaual Nature Tour involving traveling 1800 miles in vans circumnavigating Colordo with leaders Brian Gibbons and Kim Eckhart in winter-spring weather with early morning lek displays of the grouse major goals. Snow in the mountains and wind in the high praries made the weather conditions challenging. All photos on this page can be opened up by tapping with your mouse or you can try the slide show for best viewing

The Rockies	The Continental Divide	The Rockies(2)	The high praires	Wind farm on the prairie	The Turbines closeup
Cemetary at Walden	Greater Prairie Chicken	Greater Prairie Chicken	Greater Prairie Chicken	Greater Prairie Chicken	Greater Prairie Chicken
Greater Prairie Chicken	Greater Prairie Chicken displaying	Greater Prairie Chicken displaying	Greater Prairie Chicken displaying	Greater Prairie Chicken displaying	Greater Prairie Chicken displaying
Greater Prairie Chicken displaying with talk	Greater Prairie Chickens displaying	Greater Prairie Chickens	Greater Prairie Chickens courting	Strange jumping seen at the Lek	Greater Sage Grouse displaying
Greater Sage Grouse displaying	1.Confrontation	2.Begin fighting	3.Continue fight	4.Continue fight	5.Continue fight
6.Continue fight	Greater Sage Grouse female	Try to impress	Mating	Mating	1.Male begins display
2.Display continues	3..Display continues	4..Display continues	5..Display continues	Exhaustion	A Lek in the morning with a few Males
Lesser Prairie Chicken	Lesser Prairie Chicken	Lesser Prairie Chicken	Lesser Prairie Chicken	Lesser Prairie Chicken	Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Curlew	Swainson's Hawk	Ferruginous Hawk on the nest	Ferruginous Hawk Takes flight	Black-billed Magpie	Pinyon Jay
Pinyon Jay	Pinyon Jay	Pinyon Jays	Hairy Woodpecker	Red-Naped Sapsucker	Red-Naped Sapsucker
Red-Naped Sapsucker	Great-tailed Grackle	Pine Siskins	Pine Siskins	Pine Siskins	Brown-capped Rosy Finch
Brown-capped Rosy Finch	Loggerhead Shrike	Bighorn Sheep	Bighorn Sheep	Bighorn Sheep	Bighorn Sheep
Bighorn Sheep	Pronghorn Antilope	Prairie Dog relaxing	Chipping Sparrow	Horned Lark	McCown's Longspur
McCown's Longspur	Chestnut-collared Longspur	Chestnut-collared Longspur	Chestnut-collared Longspur	Red-Naped Sapsucker	Red-Naped Sapsucker
Three-Toed Woodpecker	Three-Toed Woodpecker	Three-Toed Woodpecker	Pine Siskins	Swift Fox

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