Reynolds Park and Northwest Aurora

August 7, 2018

Richard Stevens:

High temperature today in Aurora was 86 degrees.  Winds were 14-15 mph with gusts to 22 mph.

My Missouri companions continued to miss their target birds.  Today we went to Reynolds Park (Jefferson).  First, we walked along Foxton Road between the western and eastern parking areas, and then hiked the loop (Oxen Draw to Eagle's View to Raven's Roost back to the parking area.

We missed all the good birds I had found on previous trips (Dusky Grouse, Northern Pygmy-Owl, and Williamson's Sapsucker).

An American Three-toed Woodpecker was eventually heard however briefly observed 40 yards southeast of the Intersection of the Three Intersections.

After dropping them off for their office meeting, I wandered over to Alameda and Havana to search for the Tricolored Heron reported yesterday.  It was not found at the pond, nearby Lowry's Westerly Creek Dam and Wetlands, or the Great Lawn Park (north of the wetlands).

I scoped the Wetlands for about an hour.  The few birds around included two Great Blue Herons, two Snowy Egrets and one Double-crested Cormorant.

Great Lawn Park had one Snowy Egret, as did the Havana-Alameda Pond.