Yesterday (11/30) I checked Denver West Office Park. No true rarities, but seasonal rarities included an *Orange-crowned Warbler* and *Audubon's Yellow-rumped warbler*. Also 5 *Ruby-crowned Kinglets*, 5 *Brown Creepers*, a relatively large flock of 36 *Bushtits*, *Hairy Woodpecker* and pretty flocks of *Cedar Waxwings* and *American Robins*.
Red Rocks Trading Post had the usual mix of feeding birds, plus a fly -over adult *Ferruginous Hawk*. South Platte Reservoir had 2 continuing female *Surf Scoters*, still in the JeffCo corner. Cooley Lake (Arapahoe) had a 3rd cycle *Lesser Black-backed Gull*. This morning (12/1) Chatfield Reservoir had 2 female *Surf Scoters* and a *Common Loon*. The scoters were initially near the dam in Jefferson, then flew around for a while and finally put down in Douglas north of the Handicapped Fisherman Platform. Perhaps these were the same two as from just across C470 at South Platte Reservoir, but I did not have time to go back over there to check if any scoters were still there. Three *American Pipits* were on the south side of the North Boat Launch peninsula. On the home front, a few *Cassin's Finches* have been around my yard for a few days, my first here this fall, and *Pine Siskin* numbers have bumped way up over the last few days. David Suddjian Littleton, 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/CAGj6Roo9WJ-vt8teQKo9-_OaCsCsNu%3DF8Q7DwcttgctYNiZ6Hw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
