Enjoying a nice visit at our vacation home in Estes Park, I've been tracking
the influx of migrants iton the Estes Park area since we arrived last Tuesday
to several days of snow and cold.
Today during a late morning walk at Lake Estes and the Matthews-Reeser Bird
Sanctuary at the Lake, we met
We are enjoying another nice visit to the Estes Park area. I haven't had
anything noteworthy to post until today, though I have been seeing lots of good
birds.
Each morning I take an early long walk around the west end of Estes Park to
bird and buy a newspaper. On this morning's walk, I was pl
I'm not in Colorado right now, but I'm passing along a sighting of two Canyon
Wrens, singing, on the Gem Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. Our
daughter and some friends hiked the trail on Saturday and got to see and hear
the birds. eBird shows Canyon Wrens aren't reported up in this
We're enjoying a nice wintry Thanksgiving visit at our place in Estes Park.
I want to share an interesting observation. On this very windy and cold
Saturday morning I eschewed my usual morning walk down to buy the newspaper (a
daily excuse to do some early birding) and drove instead. On the wa
Thomas,
A great idea.
I'm a Maryland resident, but we have a vacation home just outside Estes Park,
Larimer County. The house is west of downtown Estes Park surrounded by mainly
ponderosa pine on the northwest-facing slope of a small "mountain" at about
7,600 feet above sea level.
I've been ke
The Broadmoor has had resident Mute Swans for many years, their birds,
not wild. For those who use eBird, if you "Explore Species" for Mute
Swan in El Paso County, you won't see any sightings, though many of us
have reported the Broadmoor birds, because they are not wild and,
therefore, correc
Enjoying our first visit to Colorado in 18 months, it's been nice to get back
to birding in the Estes Park area.
I was birding later in the afternon today, May 21, in the Matthews-Reeser
Sanctuary at Lake Estes. It was slow for a while, then, as often happens, a
flurry of activity at the place