Penny Bauer's Page

Welcome Penny! Trail is at http://www.coloradobirdingtrail.com/

BTW-I'm always in the Latham-area in my birding travels. Gary

I really hope to get out on one of Gary's bird trips.  I'm hoping to get back into birding.  It's been lots of years when I once had a nice life list and knew the bird's names and field marks....so many have changed names, lumped, split, etc. since then.  I also have a great need to meet folks interested in nature.  It's been a lot of years since I lived and worked at Rocky Mtn Natl Park where I was surrounded by like-minded people.  It's time!  Thank you for friending me.  I'm still trying to figure out this Facebook type of stuff!

It used to be that Guanella Pass was open to the top in winter.  I've been wanting to see winter ptarmigan there again for 25+ years.  The first I ever saw were on a Xmas Bird Count in Estes Park (I lived there for 30 years).  We hiked up Trail Ridge to where the Ute Pass crosses the road.  I got frostbitten on that trip and there were places the wind would not allow one to do anything but crawl, but I loved it!  (In my 20's then).  I was a ski mountaineer for years and first found ptarmigan on the Bierstadt Trail when my knees were good and I could ski the terrain.  Now I snowshoe the long, hard way.  I think it was about 6 mi. round trip above tree line to the Bierstadt trail, but there they still are in winter, some 25+ years later!

A program my grand-daughter showed me--Photobucket

Gary wrote me and said 9news used my picture of a yellow-crowned night heron on the 4 o'clock newscast, but I think they used one of yours click on 9news 4 p.m. rare bird story!

Hi Penny, Thanks! Nice to meet you. Lisa