With my interest piqued by Deb’s post, my son and I went out to this area this evening. We hiked into the park trails that go down into the valley a bit. At around 8:20pm we were on Giddy Up trail and heard at least a dozen poorwills calling. I used my phones voice memo app to get a recording, which will probably require some clean up. After that, on tenderfoot trail we encountered two separate common poorwills sitting in the middle on the trail. Since our headlamp batteries were low/dead (of course!) we were using our phone lights and didn’t see the birds until we were right on top of them.
Other notable siting were a pair of coyotes, a fly-by of a great horned owl, and a giant black beetle. Below is the location on Giddy Up where we heard them for reference. Dropped pin Near Giddy Up, Littleton, CO 80125 https://goo.gl/maps/ve9EaVZwU6pFUGdS8 Eric Storms Castle Rock On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:27 AM 'DEBORAH CARSTENSEN' via Colorado Birds < [email protected]> wrote: > A friend of mine and I went to watch the Perseid meteor shower at Daniels > Park early in the morning on Thursday. Like 1 am early. There were at least > 3 poorwills calling. So nice. We were at a parking area at: > > 11700 Grig’s rd, Highlands Ranch > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/11700+Grig%E2%80%99s+rd,+Highlands+Ranch?entry=gmail&source=g> > > Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > -- > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/12FB57DA-F903-4AD5-819A-0C393DD6FE38%40aol.com > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAPD8_CTgr86O%3DACkUSZqJnZWSB7MyyFVABR4Pj1AwZsArodO3Q%40mail.gmail.com.
