A very late Gray Catbird! Nice find! Joey Kellner Littleton, CO
On Jan 6, 5:57 pm, B K <[email protected]> wrote: > As you may know, the South Platte River exits the mountains through Waterton > Canyon -- just above Chatfield Reservoir southwest of Denver. > > Because of construction work at Strontia Springs Dam, the canyon will be > closed after January 31, 2011 -- and is not scheduled to re-open until > January 1, 2012. So -- just an FYI. Most of the South Platte River is > frozen over -- but there is still some open water. Spotted Towhee, Junco, > Belted Kingfisher, Black-capped Chickadee and American Dipper were enjoyed. > The road is mostly muddy or thinly packed with snow -- might be better to go > earlier in the day before the road thaws. > > There is ongoing construction traffic in the canyon, but it's not > overbearing. > > I hiked about 3.7 miles up the canyon road -- and met upon a nice friendly > herd of Bighorn Sheep at about 2 miles up. Given the brief opening of the > canyon to the public, I was surprised to see so many people in the canyon on > a weekday (yesterday, 1/5/2011) -- but January is the only opportunity for > the year! > > I also came across this bird -- web photos below: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/timshel40/WatertonCanyonColoradoJanuary52... > > I have scoured my bird identification books and cannot identify this bird. > It's probably obvious to many of you, but I'm still pretty new at this. > Please email me privately if you can help me! Thanks! > > Ben Kemena > Denver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
