Hello all,
On June 14, Rob Raker and I did a bicycle birding trip around Barr Lake, starting at the northeast parking lot and going clockwise. There was a female Bufflehead at the south end of the lake, and 3 Cattle Egrets flew over below the dam. In the woods below the dam near the east end, there were 3 Barn Owls. These could be the birds that were in the nest box near the banding station; we saw no owls in or near the box. We counted 85 active Western Grebe nests. We saw all of them from the trail along the southwest side of the lake, in several bays south of Barr Lake Village. Some nests were still under construction, but there were birds sitting on most of the nests. In several nests closest to the trail, we could see one or two eggs when the sitting bird stood up or moved off the nest.
Bob Andrews
Yekepa, Liberia, West Africa (temporarily in Centennial, CO)
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