Jared Where do you park to get to the Preserve? Thanks Charlie Chase On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 12:49:36 PM UTC-6, Jared Del Rosso wrote:
> My dog and I walked Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve in Greenwood Village > (Arapahoe Co.) this morning. The best birding was along the eastern edge of > the preserve at around 8:00 a.m., where flocks of about a dozen (each) of > House Finches, Cedar Waxwings, American Goldfinches, and Black-capped > Chickadees marked the spot. Among them were Wilson's, Orange-crowned, and > Yellow-rumped Warblers, White- and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Flickers, Downy > Woodpeckers, Song Sparrows, House Wrens, a Western Tanager, a Green-tailed > Towhee,a Red-naped Sapsucker, and, to my surprise, two Lewis's Woodpeckers. > > I may have missed some birds among these. The conditions were poor for > watching from the High Line Canal Trail; the sun was low and behind the > birds. (I probably should have watched from the Greenwood Gulch Trail.) > And I gave up on the spot too early to look for birds elsewhere at the > preserve. Predictably, the rest of the area was quiet. By the time I got > back to the original spot, things had died down, perhaps because two > Cooper's Hawks and two Kestrels had arrived. I did not relocate the Lewis's > on my way out of the preserve, and the Red-naped flew south into the > residential area soon after I spotted it. > > - Jared Del Rosso > Centennial, CO > > > -- 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+unsubscr...@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/31886e07-7889-4a2d-8046-6f3c8e95ab57%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
