Jared Where do you park to get to the Preserve? Thanks Charlie Chase On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 12:49:36 PM UTC-6, Jared Del Rosso wrote:
> My dog and I walked Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve in Greenwood Village > (Arapahoe Co.) this morning. The best birding was along the eastern edge of > the preserve at around 8:00 a.m., where flocks of about a dozen (each) of > House Finches, Cedar Waxwings, American Goldfinches, and Black-capped > Chickadees marked the spot. Among them were Wilson's, Orange-crowned, and > Yellow-rumped Warblers, White- and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Flickers, Downy > Woodpeckers, Song Sparrows, House Wrens, a Western Tanager, a Green-tailed > Towhee,a Red-naped Sapsucker, and, to my surprise, two Lewis's Woodpeckers. > > I may have missed some birds among these. The conditions were poor for > watching from the High Line Canal Trail; the sun was low and behind the > birds. (I probably should have watched from the Greenwood Gulch Trail.) > And I gave up on the spot too early to look for birds elsewhere at the > preserve. Predictably, the rest of the area was quiet. By the time I got > back to the original spot, things had died down, perhaps because two > Cooper's Hawks and two Kestrels had arrived. I did not relocate the Lewis's > on my way out of the preserve, and the Red-naped flew south into the > residential area soon after I spotted it. > > - 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/31886e07-7889-4a2d-8046-6f3c8e95ab57%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
