Return to Red Lake, CO. August 15-16.

 Muley bucks in velvet.

 Red Lake.

 Numerous Tiger salamander larva inhabit the wetlands around the lake.

Most of the forest and krumholz around Red Lake is dead from beetle infestation/global warming. A sad sight.

A marshy interlude, at MonteVista NWR, Aug. 14.

 Virginia Rail, Rallus limicola.

 Sora, Porzana carolina.

American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.

Crestone to Alamosa to Eagle Nest, Aug. 7-12.

 Coming down Willow Creek, 8/7.

 White pelicans at Alamosa NWR, 8/9.

Bald Eagle near Eagle Nest Lake, 8/12.