Afternoon Walk at Banner Lakes Wildlife Area

September 11, 2018

Richard Stevens:

Temperature reached 93 degrees in the afternoon.  Winds were 12-13 mph with gusts to 26 mph (at 4:00pm, died down at 5:00pm)

Rebecca and I went for a leisure hike at Banner Lakes Wildlife Area (Weld County) in the afternoon.  Winds slowed down and we greatly enjoyed the solitude and beautiful afternoon.

American Robins were the majority bird at the northern section.  No Long-eared Owls could be located.  A Great Horned Owl flew out of the trees along Pond 12.  A Spotted Towhee lurked around the northern parking area.

No owls were found along the southern Ponds either.  An American Redstart fluttered about the Russian Olive trees just south of the southern parking area.

Beautiful sunset, perhaps it is due to the continuing wildfires?