I joined up with Gwen Moore and David GIllilan for a this morning of birding in Jefferson and Denver Counties.
We started early at Red Rocks’ Trading Post, early enough to see the adult Golden-crowned Sparrow come out through a bit of a hold in the undergrowth, grab a seed or two and dive back undercover rather than face off with hordes of Western Scrub-Jays. We went into Morrison for American Dipper and then up to Ira Sanders’ feeders. At Ira there was one Brown-capped and one Gray-crowned Rosy Finch at first, the about 6 more Gray-crowneds arrived. Also present were 4 Lesser Goldfinches, a couple of American Goldfinches, one Pine Siskin, a few Cassin’s Finches and House Finches making it a 7 finch stop.
We continued to Denver West Office Park where we walk around a great deal, found a large flock of Bushtits and a small flock of Cedar Waxwings plus a Brown Creeper, but no Pine Warbler. We stopped at a couple of the lakes in NW Denver, but best by far was Rocky Mountain Lake which had 2 Lesser and 1 Greater Scaup, several Redhead and Ring-necked Ducks, Ruddy Duck and Common Mergansers. I made Gwen and David work the cottonwoods hard until they could show me a couple of Brown Creepers.
Bill Kaempfer
Boulder
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