This morning, while walking my dog at Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve, I had a brief encounter with a *Red-headed Woodpecker*. The bird, which was high in a tree along the High Line Canal on the eastern side of the preserve, didn't seem to want to stick around, flying into the surrounding community after I snapped some photos.
Also at the preserve was an early *MacGillvray's Warbler* and the first *Turkey Vulture* I've seen in west Arapahoe Co since early-April. During an earlier visit this morning, without the dog, I spotted a female *Lazuli Bunting*. I thought I heard a catbird, but never saw it and could have been fooled by the various sounds that the dozens of Common Grackle, Red-winged Blackbirds, and starling make. As I was leaving the preserve during that first visit, an *Osprey* flew over. I didn't see it during my second visit, but I've read that they're sometimes found at the Preserve. Several singing *Yellow Warbler* were around too, my first of the season. Between the trips to the preserve, I spotted two *Brewer's Sparrow* and an *Orange-crowned Warbler *in my yard in west Centennial. Poor photos of the woodpecker and the MacGillvray's are on my eBird checklist <http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29461008>. - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, 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/ea2009cf-cdc7-444d-b4e9-ffcc15a84929%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
