October 23, 2017
Richard Stevens:
David Penn, Mark James and I parked at Reynolds Park (Jefferson County) about 1.5 hours before sunrise.
We walked Foxton Road and found a Northern Pygmy-Owl along the Songbird Trail. No Common Poorwills could be enticed to call out.
After sunrise we hiked up Eagle's View Trail and found a Dusky Grouse several hundred yards south (uphill) of the old service road.
We continued the loop around to the Raven's Roost & Oxen Draw Trails intersection and down (north) along Oxen Draw Trail. A male American Three-toed Woodpecker was drumming about 75 yards or so downhill of the intersection.
Other birds encountered included Pygmy and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Pine Siskins and two Red Crossbills. Misses: no Williamson's Sapsuckers or additional owls were found.
We stopped and observed the Surf Scoter on Tabor Lake, Wheat Ridge Greenbelt (Jefferson).
After dropping them off at their motel, I detoured over to Cherry Creek Reservoir (Arapahoe). While I did not find the Surf Scoter reported yesterday, the Common Loon was still on the lake. MIsses: no Red-necked Grebe, Bonaparte's Gull or Lesser Black-backed Gull was found today.
Richard Stevens:
David Penn, Mark James and I parked at Reynolds Park (Jefferson County) about 1.5 hours before sunrise.
We walked Foxton Road and found a Northern Pygmy-Owl along the Songbird Trail. No Common Poorwills could be enticed to call out.
After sunrise we hiked up Eagle's View Trail and found a Dusky Grouse several hundred yards south (uphill) of the old service road.
We continued the loop around to the Raven's Roost & Oxen Draw Trails intersection and down (north) along Oxen Draw Trail. A male American Three-toed Woodpecker was drumming about 75 yards or so downhill of the intersection.
Other birds encountered included Pygmy and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Pine Siskins and two Red Crossbills. Misses: no Williamson's Sapsuckers or additional owls were found.
We stopped and observed the Surf Scoter on Tabor Lake, Wheat Ridge Greenbelt (Jefferson).
After dropping them off at their motel, I detoured over to Cherry Creek Reservoir (Arapahoe). While I did not find the Surf Scoter reported yesterday, the Common Loon was still on the lake. MIsses: no Red-necked Grebe, Bonaparte's Gull or Lesser Black-backed Gull was found today.
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