Hey, everybody. Here's more on the Feb. 7, 2016 trip that Andrew Floyd and I took to the Denver Zoo and City Park, Denver County:
http://blog.aba.org/2016/03/birding-at-the-zoo.html More photos, basically, and additional commentary. In more recent bird news, the Waneka Lake neighborhoods are now completely overrun with *bushtits.* And Waneka Lake itself, or what once was Waneka Lake, is now overrun with dredging equipment. Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 7:53:10 PM UTC-7, Ted Floyd wrote: > > Hello, Birders. > > Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, Feb. 7, Andrew Floyd and I had pretty much > the whole Denver Zoo to ourselves. Well, us and the animals. I wonder > why... ;-) > > We found a number of interesting birds, including an apparent *mottled > duck x mallard* hybrid, a *white-throated sparrow,* 8 *common grackles,* > a *merlin,* 13 *Indian peafowl,* and 2+ *brown creepers.* Over at nearby > City Park, a *graylag goose* consorted with the *cackling geese* and *Canada > geese,* and Ferril Lake was aswarm with noisy *northern shovelers,* the > males' pea-green heads aglow in the setting sun. Call it the green flash, > haha. > > Photos and audio of the Denver Zoo goodies here: > > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27376549 > > Ted Floyd > Lafayette, Boulder County > -- 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/1221eea2-5905-43bf-b23a-74e4695ce73d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
