Better Birdwatching

06/12/2026

Saturday, June 13, Buena Vista, FREE Bird Walk and Program
9:00-10:00 AM- Guided Bird Walk
Walk for about one mile along Arkansas River. Learn to identify birds by sight and sound and about the trees and plants where birds live.
Meet at Book Nook store, 127 San Juan Ave., 719-395-6868. Book signing after walk.
11:00 AM-12:00 PM- Audiovisual Program.
Learn to identify common breeding birds of Buena Vista by sight and sound. Meet at Buena Vista Library, 131 Linderman Ave.

06/06/2026

At family fun day at the dinosaur resource center in Woodland Park, local artist, John K Patterson, busy doing a dinosaur painting, entire painting, done from coffee grounds! 😲😲😲
Find him on Facebook, John K Patterson

06/06/2026

Ready to sell some mountain birds books at the family fun day at the dinosaur resource center in Woodland Park, from 9 AM to 3 PM, come on by!

06/03/2026

Saturday, June 6, Outdoor Family Fun Day, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park, CO
Better Birdwatching will be at the event selling and signing Mountain Birds Books.

Join the DRC on our outdoor plaza for a day full of family fun!
There will be good food, Chalk Drawing, Fire Truck, Ambulance and Police Vehicles, Children’s Activities, Crafts, Science Activity Tables and much more!
Outdoor plaza is free, and the museum will still require admission to enter.

05/27/2026

Read my late May Take a Hike article in the Pikes Peak Courier about South Colony Lakes Trail.

The South Colony basin hovers at about 12,000 feet and is surrounded by lofty peaks with sheer cliffs that dump a ton of snow into the basin over the winter. As the snow thaws and recedes the Lower and Upper lakes remain like giant puddles. Although this basin lies farther south near Westcliffe, wit...

05/26/2026

Saturday, May 30, Bird Walks at Wilkerson Pass
8:30-9:30 AM & 9:30-10:30 AM
FREE bird walks along the one mile Puma Point trail. Learn to identify birds by sight and sound while also learning about the trees and plants where birds live. Meet at Wilkerson Pass Visitor Center.

05/18/2026

Monday, May 25, Memorial Day, Green Mountain Falls
8:30-9:30 AM– FREE guided bird walk for about one mile, around Gazebo Lake, along Fountain Creek and up the start of the Red Butte Trail. Learn how to identify local birds by sight and sound, while also learning about the plants and trees where birds live. Meet at Painted Bear Store, 10550 Ute Pass Ave.

05/11/2026

Saturday, May 16, Starsmore Hummingbird Festival
10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Starsmore Visitor and Nature Center, 2120 S Cheyenne Canyon Rd, Colorado Springs
Better Birdwatching will be at the event selling and signing Mountain Birds books.
Join the Friends of Cheyenne Cañon at the Starsmore Discovery Center early May of each year. We will have a variety of fun and educational presentations for people of all ages. Please consider carpooling to the event as parking lots in North Cheyenne Cañon Park have limited space.

05/09/2026

Ready to sell some mountain birds books at the Mother’s Day makers market at the Sluice Gallery in Colorado Springs, from 9 AM to 4 PM, come on by! 

05/08/2026

Read my May Take a Hike article in the Pikes Peak Courier about the Colorado Trail - Waterton Canyon.

The CT Series is a special series of hiking articles about the Colorado Trail (CT) that runs from May through October. The CT is a unique and well maintained continuous trail, spanning 485 miles from Denver to Durango. The Colorado Mountain Club Guidebook to the Colorado Trail is an indispensable to...