February 2-3, 2015
Richard Stevens:
February 2
Bryan Ehlmann and I started a short trip to the southern Front Range with a stop at the Denver West Office Complex. The Pine Warbler was south of building four. We hoped for a better photo than past trips; however, the Warbler stayed high in the evergreens. We only saw brief looks of the jittery bird.
It took about 10 minutes before the Golden-crowned Sparrow appeared behind the Red Rocks Park Trading Post.
Our next stop was Highway 67 and Rampart Range Road. It took some searching, finally the male American Three-toed Woodpecker that frequents the woods just east of the intersection was observed.
From sunset (5:22 pm) to 2:00 am, we searched for owls. We also put out our "owl listening stations" (see "Colorado Field Notes" for description of them).
Eventually, we found three Northern Pygmy-Owls and two Northern Saw-whet Owls. (Later, running the software on our "owl listening stations" recordings added two additional Northern Pygmy-Owls and another Northern Saw-whet Owl!
February 3
Our second goal was to try out some camping equipment owned by a friend of mine who owns a sporting goods store. We thought our trip was planned to utilize a window of nice weather this week. However, at around 2:00 am, it started to snow. Moreover, it snowed and snowed!
We set up camp along Guanella Pass Road north of Grant. A Northern Saw-whet Owl called briefly in response to a recording played just before we retired for a few hours of sleep.
We woke up to half a foot or more of new snow. This changed our plans to drive up to Guanella Pass (for White-tailed Ptarmigan search); we returned to Denver.
After dropping Bryan off, I drove through Cherry Creek State Park (Arapahoe) and found the same situation as Jerry Petrosky also found. Not one Gull was observed on the ice/snow covered lake.
No owls could be found when I drove the DIA Owl Loop (Adams).
Richard Stevens:
February 2
Bryan Ehlmann and I started a short trip to the southern Front Range with a stop at the Denver West Office Complex. The Pine Warbler was south of building four. We hoped for a better photo than past trips; however, the Warbler stayed high in the evergreens. We only saw brief looks of the jittery bird.
It took about 10 minutes before the Golden-crowned Sparrow appeared behind the Red Rocks Park Trading Post.
Our next stop was Highway 67 and Rampart Range Road. It took some searching, finally the male American Three-toed Woodpecker that frequents the woods just east of the intersection was observed.
From sunset (5:22 pm) to 2:00 am, we searched for owls. We also put out our "owl listening stations" (see "Colorado Field Notes" for description of them).
Eventually, we found three Northern Pygmy-Owls and two Northern Saw-whet Owls. (Later, running the software on our "owl listening stations" recordings added two additional Northern Pygmy-Owls and another Northern Saw-whet Owl!
February 3
Our second goal was to try out some camping equipment owned by a friend of mine who owns a sporting goods store. We thought our trip was planned to utilize a window of nice weather this week. However, at around 2:00 am, it started to snow. Moreover, it snowed and snowed!
We set up camp along Guanella Pass Road north of Grant. A Northern Saw-whet Owl called briefly in response to a recording played just before we retired for a few hours of sleep.
We woke up to half a foot or more of new snow. This changed our plans to drive up to Guanella Pass (for White-tailed Ptarmigan search); we returned to Denver.
After dropping Bryan off, I drove through Cherry Creek State Park (Arapahoe) and found the same situation as Jerry Petrosky also found. Not one Gull was observed on the ice/snow covered lake.
No owls could be found when I drove the DIA Owl Loop (Adams).
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