Last week a little storm played over the Uncompahgre Plateau…(Un-come-pah-gray).
As I stood taking a photo of the sunset and the pink rain cloud — a wedge of returning geese passed over us…calling to all who could hear…”we have returned, winter in near.”
As always your friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
We have flocks of magpie geese passing overhead too, but their message is different here: “summer’s coming, weather’s warmer, let’s get back to our breeding grounds and make as much noise as we can while we’re doing it!”
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Sounds of JOY and Love in the air!
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Exactly!
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What are magpie geese?
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I hope Kate answers 🙂
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Australian native geese, black and white, easily mistaken for Canada geese except that the colours are arranged differently. This link shows what they look like:
http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/magpie-goose
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OH! Thanks so much, Kate!
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My pleasure! I’m a big bird lover, keeping a list of all the ones I spot in the garden. I’m deeply jealous of your hummingbirds; the closest we get are sunbirds, tiny nectar eaters about the length of my little finger, in olive and bright yellow, but they don’t truly hover.
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I had never heard of them before! Thank you!
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No worries! I love questions about birds; I’m not quite a nerd, but I find them endlessly fascinating…
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Are you a twitcher? : )
Did you see my post about the kingfisher? I was blown away by how beautiful they are, and how small!
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Head on over to Kate’s blog…she has some amazing birds on there!
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I’m not a twitcher in the sense that I simply observe, rather than chase them down. We have some sensational birds here. Below is a link to a post I put up earlier about some of them; Linda used one of the images in her rainbow series – you’ll see why if you click through!:
I haven’t seen your kingfisher post, but I’ll go hunting for it. They are spectacularly colourful for northern hemisphere birds, and a close relative of our own noisy kookaburras, but as you say, a whole lot smaller.
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Pink rain! Clever! And beautiful!
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Kinda up there with Purple Rain 🙂
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Pretty clouds, Linda! And I am not ready for fall to end…
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Me either. It is snowing on Wolf Creek Pass
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Wait – I know a country song by that name! Is that local to you?
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No two hours away. It can be a nightmare to drive, but much improved from years past.
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Now I have the song in my head – it is a funny one! Do you know it?
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C.W. MaCall–Wolf Creek Pass Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC_onLPc-0E
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I love it! My dad had this on an 8-track of trucker music. It’s the only country I truly appreciate! I still say things like ‘around and down and around and down’ and ‘pick us up with a stick and a spoon’!
I heard there is a place at the bottom of the pass that has memorialised the song with a truck half-through the building – is that true?
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Well, I don’t remember seeing it, but could be.
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If I had your beautiful skies I would never look down.
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I don’t seem to look down much, I should that is why I trip!
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Such a beautiful header, Linda! And the ‘pink rain’ cloud! We had a strong storm come thru late last evening and during the night….2″ of rain and tons of wind. Wish we could have had your pretty pink rain! A gray day today with early morning fog that has now dissipated. It’s soup weather!!!
Blessings!
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This would make an awesome backdrop for my Denver and Rio Grande Western model railroad.
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You want to use the photo, Kent?
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we’re expecting rain this weekend, finally. i don’t care what color it is. 🙂
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We have so much rain our road has become a river. 😦
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Better get Boomer some waders!
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Your pink rain cloud is lovely ..
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I thought it was very unusual!
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Beautiful sky! Isn’t it fun to watch the changes in it? Gray yesterday, pink today …. All interesting and all beautiful .
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It makes me more than happy, it makes me content.
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