March 23, 2009
Richard Stevens:
Allyson Marceau and I searched for American Three-toed Woodpeckers at Pine Valley Ranch Park today. After yesterday's snow, 50 degree temperatures and mild winds we welcomed.
Our trek took us 1.5 miles up the Buck Gulch Trail before we found a pair of American Three-toed Woodpeckers. The male and female Three-toed Woodpeckers were 50 feet east of the trail at the Park Boundary Sign (from Pine Lake it really is the third Park Boundary sign that you pass before the "real" Park Boundary Sign as the trail weaves in and out of Pine Valley Ranch Park before leaving the park for good and entering Pike National Forest……how's that for one long sentence?).
We were quite happy not to have to hike the whole 6.0 mile loop to find a Three-toed Woodpecker and turned back toward Pine Lake.
We passed Reynolds Park on the way back to Denver and made a quick stop and search for Northern Pygmy-Owls; without success.
The rest of the day we visited Barr Lake State Park, Cherry Creek State Park, and Star K Open Space in search of an American Tree Sparrow; without success. My experience in past years is that once the Tree Sparrows start to depart Colorado, they are quite difficult to find just one. It turned out to be the case today.
Along the trek we looked for the Ferruginous Hawk that had spent the winter along the DIA Owl Loop; without success. On Burrowing Owls were found yet either.
Richard Stevens:
Allyson Marceau and I searched for American Three-toed Woodpeckers at Pine Valley Ranch Park today. After yesterday's snow, 50 degree temperatures and mild winds we welcomed.
Our trek took us 1.5 miles up the Buck Gulch Trail before we found a pair of American Three-toed Woodpeckers. The male and female Three-toed Woodpeckers were 50 feet east of the trail at the Park Boundary Sign (from Pine Lake it really is the third Park Boundary sign that you pass before the "real" Park Boundary Sign as the trail weaves in and out of Pine Valley Ranch Park before leaving the park for good and entering Pike National Forest……how's that for one long sentence?).
We were quite happy not to have to hike the whole 6.0 mile loop to find a Three-toed Woodpecker and turned back toward Pine Lake.
We passed Reynolds Park on the way back to Denver and made a quick stop and search for Northern Pygmy-Owls; without success.
The rest of the day we visited Barr Lake State Park, Cherry Creek State Park, and Star K Open Space in search of an American Tree Sparrow; without success. My experience in past years is that once the Tree Sparrows start to depart Colorado, they are quite difficult to find just one. It turned out to be the case today.
Along the trek we looked for the Ferruginous Hawk that had spent the winter along the DIA Owl Loop; without success. On Burrowing Owls were found yet either.
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