[cobirds] Reynolds Park - Jefferson County
Date: 10 March 2015 Time: 1240 - 1510 Weather: Sunny, mild I took a leisurely walk/hike up Mt Reynolds Park today. I only saw 11 species and managed to lug my camera the entire time without taking a single picture. I did, however see a Dusky Grouse that flushed from 25 feet above me on a hillside. Also, in a mixed flock of Mountain Chickadees and Brown Creepers, I saw a Golden-crowned Kinglet. This is only significant to me because it had been 2,136 days since my last G-c Kinglet sighting. For all of you literature majors** out there, that is less than two months short of six years. My half decade long bout of futility has finally ended. That futility included at least two dozen days last year specifically devoted to questing for this species. So, on to new and better goals. I think I'll now try to get a better picture of a Golden-crowned Kinglet than the one I have from 2009. I'm getting the sense of deja vu. I'm getting the sense of deja vu. The grouse was up Eagle's View Trail. The kinglet and company were on Raven's Roost near the bottom of that trail. ** I was truly just joking about the literature majors, so I hope I didn't offend anyone. I was just picking a major that wasn't math related. It takes a highly intelligent and ambitious person to even under take getting the noble degree of literature (too much?). Happy Birding John Breitsch Denver, CO https://www.flickr.com/photos/breitschbirding/ -- 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/c5134217-85e7-48cf-8224-8a8f8bd57647%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Reynolds Park - Jefferson County
It was a fairly quiet morning at Reynolds. I have to work tonight, so I didn't stay long, since I have to get a nap in at some point. I had a few flocks of nuthatches (white-breasted and pygmy), a few Downy Woodpeckers, one calling Northern Pygmy-Owl and quite a few tooting Townsend's Solitaires. My favorite bird of the day was a Canyon Wren I found along Ravens Roost Trail. This little guy seemed to enjoy my company. I spent 15 minutes having a conversation with him while he danced around me. He was chattering away and I was pishing/imitating the chatter. A very playful bird. I almost felt bad about leaving him. For the record, I have no idea the gender of the bird, despite my pronoun usage. If anyone can tell me how to tell a male from a female in the field, that would be great. On the way home, I swung by Green Valley Ranch Town Center Park behind the King Soopers (Tower and GVR Blvd). I had planned on searching through all the lounging geese, but I was distracted by two beautiful foxes. Stunning. They didn't enjoy being the prey as much as the hunters, so they ended up going to the middle of the pond and waiting for me to leave. Literally, the moment I got in my car, they resumed activity. I did get a nice Snow Goose as it flew in with group of Canada/Cackling Geese. John Breitsch Denver, CO http://www.flickr.com/photos/breitschbirding/ -- 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/2cb98310-9e0f-4ad0-b0e5-88c350a683b0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
