A MISCHIEF OF MAGPIES bird Caribou in the Alaska Range

Caribou in the Alaska Range on a winter night

Native wildflowers

the Resplendent Quetzal lives in the cloud forests of Central America

So I combined these sightings in memory of a particularly delightful summer day

On that same outing

A MISCHIEF OF MAGPIES bird Caribou in the Alaska RangeSeven magpies gathered around a fallen tree on a Colorado hillside along the front range of the Rocky Mountains. A gathering of magpies is poetically called a "mischief" of magpies, which seems an apt description for these intelligent and curious birds. I see flocks of them most often in fall after their young have fledged and always wonder what sort of mischief they are up to. I saw this group puttering around Lory State Park near Fort Collins,