On Saturday, 1/24/2015, we headed down to Jack B. Tomlinson Park in Arvada (Jefferson County) because of a recent eBird report of a dozen Wood Ducks, which sounded unlikely, but interesting. Sure enough, when we got there, all we could see from the quite windy parking lot were a batch of Canada Geese and a few ducks at the far end. Turns out we were right, there weren't really a dozen Wood Ducks there, there were *fifteen*, located in both the main pond and the smaller pond to the west. We went back on Sunday and found only two. However, over at nearby Four-Acre Lake Park (also Jeffco), we found clusters of geese, shovelers, and mergansers...and a juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron sitting on a branch near the water. A few minutes later, two more juvenile herons flew in.
While not super-rare, the big numbers of Wood Ducks and aren't-they-too-far-north-for-January Night Herons were fun to see. - Barry Gingrich Broomfield, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/2dc5fabe-e6d5-4348-8a26-dca20c1e43d7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
