Below is a summary of today's Denver Field Ornithologists' Field Trip to the Wheat Ridge Greenbelt in Jefferson County.
Kathanne Lynch (DFO field trip leader, 303-968-4750 phone) BIRDS: 26 species, 916 individuals DATE: Sunday January 10, 2010 LOCATION: Jefferson County, CO: Wheat Ridge Greenbelt (Prospect Park), 5400’ TIME & TEMP: 10:30 – 13:30, 39-51 degrees, < 1 mph, Partly Cloudy HABITAT: OPEN WATER 1% (ponds), RIPARIAN: Clear Creek 100% open, wetlands 100% frozen 1 Great Blue Heron 132 Canada Goose 32 Gadwall 2 Am. Widgeon 70 Mallard 450 Northern Shoveler 12 Green-winged Teal 5 Canvasback 1 Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 15 Common Goldeneye 1 Hooded Merganser 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper’s Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 6 Am. Coot 111 Ring-billed Gull 6 Rock Pigeon 2 Belted Kingfisher 13 Northern Flicker 15 Am. Crow 9 Black-capped Chickadee 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 European Starling 10 House Finch 5 Am. Goldfinch 1.5 miles (foot) + 0.2 miles (car) by 15 Participants: Kate Brannan, Will Bunt, Marge Burgess, Jill Boice, Joan Coxe, Donna Cross, Patty Echelmeyer, N. S. Ford, Chuck Hundertmark, Kathanne Lynch (leader), Elizabeth Maslow, Rich Maslow, Melissa W. Smith, Jane Stulp, Pixie Wigfall (posted on COBIRDS 01-10-10 by Kathanne Lynch)
