Visited Belmar Historic Park/Kountze Lake in Lakewood on Sunday and Monday, May 26 and 27.
Saw mostly the usual birds and some other wildlife (lots of turtles, spawning carp, muskrat), but there were a few springtime highlights:
* Wood Duck female with ducklings (no male seen, but I guess that's typical)
* Double-Crested Cormorants nesting on island with at least four young cormorants visible in one nest
* At least two Mallard pairs with ducklings
* Nesting Flicker pair
* Barn Swallow nesting inside boardwalk
The Wood Duck and Cormorant youngsters were firsts for me. Nifty.
Also seen: Great Blue Herons, Snowy Egret, Canada Geese with goslings, Yellow Warbler pair (I think, they zoomed by), several Gadwall, many Red-Winged Blackbirds, many other Swallows and Canada Geese.
- Barry Gingrich
Broomfield County
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/56deeb1b-1fbb-4c21-81e7-aa9374d206e0%40googlegroups.com?hl=en-US.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
No comments:
Post a Comment