[cobirds] Re: Brambling Continues - Divine Intervention

Steve -

Is it the habit of Nuns to wear binoculars?

Karl Stecher
Centennial

Steve Stachowiak & Melody Egge writes:

> Due to the number of email questions that I have received, I am posting this
> again with a few small details added:
>
> Cobirders,
>
> Observers arrived just before 7 a.m. this morning at the Brambling spot at
> Bear Creek Lake Park in Jefferson County. The bird had not appeared and it
> was around 7:40 or so someone whose name I did not catch brought some much
> needed seed. It was spread and we continued to monitor the birds. The new
> seed prompted a Black-billed Magpie to begin coming to the bridge which
> continually flushed the smaller birds feeding, and still no Brambling.
>
> Just before 8 a.m. we heard a car pull up and park just off the shoulder of
> the main road. A few of us turned to admonish the driver for parking on the
> road instead of the parking lot and to warn them that a park ranger had been
> making rounds. However, as we turned there were three nuns exiting the car;
> each wearing a white coif, Holy habit and toting a pair of bins. They were
> there to see the Brambling. Nobody said anything about their choice of
> parking. As the sisters approached the group along the gate, someone that
> had been standing there hopefully for the past hour made the comment, "I'll
> take all the help we can get at this point.". Just as the sisters made it
> up to the gate the Brambling made its first appearance on the bridge for the
> group. Amen, sisters.
>
> Thanksgiving Day indeed!
>
> Good Birding,
> Steve Stachowiak
> Highlands Ranch, CO
>
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