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Barr Lake State Park – Bird Photography – Bird Footage

September 4, 2017 by davespates Leave a Comment

Huge Flock of gulls and other birds at Barr Lake State Park, Adams County, Colorado

Bird Photography at Barr Lake State Park – Colorado Barr Lake state park is located in Adams County. Plug the address into your GPS and it should get you there. 13401 Picadilly Rd, Brighton, CO 80603. Just like all state parks in Colorado, there’s an entry fee, unless of course you have the state park […]

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Belmar Park, Colorado, Bird Photography

September 4, 2017 by davespates Leave a Comment

Summer tanager, rare bird, feeding, Lakewood, Colorado

Belmar Park, home to Kountze Lake, is a great place for birds. Whether you are bird watching, birding, taking photographs of birds, this is the spot to be. It doesn’t provide the best landscape opportunities for photography, but it does, offer birds. It could be just me. But out of all the places I’ve visited […]

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Sloan Lake, Denver, Photography

September 1, 2017 by davespates Leave a Comment

Sunrise over Sloan Lake, downtown Denver skyline

Sloan’s Lake park is the second biggest park in Denver. There is a trail around the entire lake that is approximately 2.6 miles loop. In Big cities, big parks are great for photographic opportunities. They attract it all. People, wildlife, birds, boats, sunsets and sunrises. If you are in a big city, and like photography, […]

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Bird Photography Castlewood Canyon State Park

August 13, 2017 by davespates

Young hummingbird begging for food - castlewood canyon state park, colorado

On July 20th, 2014, I decided on doing some bird photography at Castlewood Canyon State Park, Colorado. For the bird photographs I used my Nikon setup of the D7000, 300mm f/4 paired with the nikon x1.4 teleconverter. So if you are wondering if the image quality of the 300mm f/4 falls off when using the […]

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Pawnee National Grassland – Self Guided Birding Tour

June 10, 2017 by davespates

Sunrise at Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado

This time of year is one of my favorite times to visit Pawnee National Grassland for bird photography, one of reasons for this it’s where you can surely find Colorado’s state bird, the Lark Bunting, in summer time of course. So if you are interested in visiting place and wanting to get some kick ass […]

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Estes Park early June

June 7, 2017 by davespates

Sunrise at Sprague Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colorado, June 4th 2017

Weekend getaway from Denver spent with my mom. All the photos from the trip were taken inside of Rocky Mountain National Park, definitely one of the coolest places in Colorado for wildlife and nature photography in my opinion. I don’t get out much to shoot birds as much as I’d like too, due to photographing […]

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