Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Fantastic Birding Day in Adams & Jefferson Counties

January 10, 2012

Richard Stevens:

Lynn (no last name) informed us about the Snowy Owl presence. We relocated the Snowy Owl by stopping at the green box along the south side of 138th avenue. Looking northeast to the house, go one telephone pole west, then one fence post east. The owl was 10 feet east in higher grass. The small group of taller grass provided cover.

This was after we drove for three hours and scoped most of the fields to the south. It was a sunny day and quite an enjoyable ride. We stopped at 138th as an after thought, glad we did.

Two Ferruginous Hawks, one Prairie Falcon, many Red-tailed Hawks and a first year Bald Eagle were along the DIA owl loop.

Another 12+ Bald Eagles were at Barr Lake.

We hope birders took time to look at tonight's sunset. It was one of the superior sunsets of the many winter sunsets in Colorado!

Not a bad day with this morning's Greater Roadrunner sighting at Dinosaur Ridge and the Golden-crowned Sparrow at Red Rocks Park.

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