Thursday, November 7, 2019

Reynolds Park in Jefferson County

November 4, 2019

Richard Stevens:

The temperature hovered around 32 degrees during our visit.  Winds remained close to 5 mph all morning.

Don Beers and I walked Foxton Road along the north side of Reynolds Park an hour before sunrise.  We did not hear a Northern Pygmy-Owl until we hiked up Oxen Draw toward Eagle View.  The owl was somewhere in the line of trees east of the trail at the south edge of the clearing south of the Songbird trail.

An American Three-toed Woodpecker was heard drumming about 20 yards east of the Eagle View, Oxen Draw, and Raven's Roost intersection.

Our final highlight was a Dusky Grouse along the Eagle View Trail, just west of the overlook clearing.

No Williamson's Sapsuckers appeared to be in the area.

I did not see any Short-eared Owls along the DIA Owl Loop at sunset.

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