Several of us tried to find the pair of Rusty Blackbirds this morning
with no luck. Michael Kiessig and I ended up exploring the Wheat
Ridge Greenbelt (Barrow's Goldeneye on Prospect Lake), then going back
this afternoon. Just before 2:00p.m., we saw a couple of dark looking
birds fly from the area of the beaver pond to the north and land near
the creek bank. They turned out to be the Rusty Blackbird pair - we
had great looks as they fed along the creek bank. Bill and Janet
Carter came by and joined us as we watched the pair, which eventually
flew into a small tree on the south side of the creek giving us even
closer looks and allowing us to compare their size to the Red-winged
Blackbird(a little larger). Joe Lupfer and Karen Clark joined our
group while the Rusty pair perched in the tree. The location was
about halfway between the I-70 overpass and the orange cone in the
creek on the west side of I-70,
or, more specifically, about 170 yards along the trail west of the
I-70 overpass. The pair appeared to be working their way to the west
when we left.
Mike Henwood
Morrison
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