[cobirds] Re: Magpie Madness in west Centennial

To add to Kevin's observation, just a tiny bit north of where Kevin lives, but south of where he visited the High Line Canal Trail, is my neighborhood. Magpies were abundant yesterday, moving in a group of about the same number that Kevin reports. Really neat and striking scene, even if -- in my memory -- I know that the local magpies devoured my yard's House Finch young. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

On Friday, July 4, 2025 at 2:31:23 PM UTC-6 kevyg...@aol.com wrote:

Hello Fellow Birders,

 

   The magpies must have had a great nesting season because they are everywhere in the vicinity of my little townhouse yard in west Centennial, near Holly St & Arapahoe Rd.   And everywhere else it seems.  This morning my wife & I walked the Greenwood Gulch Trail northwest from Orchard Road to its merger with the Highline Canal trail, and the magpies were everywhere along that route as well.  I just counted 17 in my postage-stamp-size yard, while there were many more on the small front lawns of the townhouses on our cul-de-sac.  Between them and the 3  food-begging fledgling Red-Tailed Hawks who came out of a nearby tree nest a week or so ago it's been pretty noisy around here.

Keep Smilin',

Kevin Corwin

west Centennial, Arapahoe County

 

Sent from my Remington Rand Typewriter via my Rotary Dial Wall Phone

 

 

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