Hello, birders.
Andrew Floyd and I were guests of a Colorado State University Ornithology
Club field trip today, Sat., Nov. 14, to Denver County. We started out in
City Park, which had good numbers and diversity of wintering gulls, geese,
and ducks. Highlights were a *wood duck* and one of the long-present *graylag
geese.* Also a ridiculously cooperative *Cooper hawk,* a *nelsoni* ("Rocky
Mountains") *white-breasted nuthatch,* and a loud *brown creeper*
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On the grounds of the nearby Denver Zoo, we heard and saw a *white-throated
sparrow,* a big ole flock of *bushtits* (remember when they were actually
notable as far north and east as Denver?), a couple *ruby-crowned kinglets,*
the regular wintertime flock of *common grackles,* and another *brown
creeper.*
And the usual suspects: pileated woodpecker, Indian peafowl, Egyptian
plover, cinereous vulture, Abyssian ground hornbill . . .
Great day: nice birds, fine weather, splendid company, paradise tanagers
flitting about, and Nicobar pigeons walking around at our feet--not much to
complain about!
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
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