The Waterton portion of the Denver Fall Count yesterday had a typical suite of species. We tallied 786 individuals of 61 species -- last year, 60 species, 553 birds.
Highlights: A family of Blue Grosbeaks fed near the Gazebo. An Eastern Phoebe hid in underbrush on Roxborough Park Road (maybe a refugee from the nesting pairs at Chatfield.
The most amazing, near the Audubon Nature Center: a bear cub (yearling, not cute and cuddly) that scrambled 15 feet up a cottonwood tree. Also seen last Sunday on the Denver Audubon Walk the Wetlands trip. Totally fresh bear droppings, loaded with chunks of apple, near the Water Board fishing pond, and another on the threshold to the Nature Center.
We also went with Kirk Huffstater on the Castlewood Canyon count today. Our highlights involved predators: a coyote that hassled a flock of 10 Wild Turkeys (both species about the same size) and a Merlin that flashed by after a flock of Vesper Sparrows (with unknown results).
Highlights: A family of Blue Grosbeaks fed near the Gazebo. An Eastern Phoebe hid in underbrush on Roxborough Park Road (maybe a refugee from the nesting pairs at Chatfield.
The most amazing, near the Audubon Nature Center: a bear cub (yearling, not cute and cuddly) that scrambled 15 feet up a cottonwood tree. Also seen last Sunday on the Denver Audubon Walk the Wetlands trip. Totally fresh bear droppings, loaded with chunks of apple, near the Water Board fishing pond, and another on the threshold to the Nature Center.
We also went with Kirk Huffstater on the Castlewood Canyon count today. Our highlights involved predators: a coyote that hassled a flock of 10 Wild Turkeys (both species about the same size) and a Merlin that flashed by after a flock of Vesper Sparrows (with unknown results).
Urling & Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO
-- Franktown, CO
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