Little pockets of birds here and there. A quiet trip to Running Deer last week.
I know, not a bird....
My first cooperative Common Yellowthroat this year...maybe next
time he'll oblige me further by perching a little closer!
On Monday I went down to Chatfield State Park to visit the Western Gull:
This wayward visitor was all sorts of cooperative. Granted he's injured, but he
can fly and chose not as a tractor made seemingly 8 or 10 passes along the swim beach.
My first visit to Chatfield left me feeling that it wasn't so much my kind of place,
so I was really happy that I realized I could stop at Red Rocks on the way home. I made a
quick detour to pick up some bird seed and then camped out at the
Trading Post.
The only usual un-regular who made an appearance was the Curve-billed Thrasher.
I sat pretty close to the feeder to hide from the sun, so he may
have been a little more apprehensive than usual....I think I got some dirty looks!
(Human-studying.) In addition to the un-regulars, I was hoping to run into a
Canyon Wren, but no such luck this trip.
Today I headed to Greeley to look for the possibly breeding Yellow-crowned Night Heron. Not so much: he would have had to walk right in front of me for me to see him I think. A birder's needle-in-haystack and I don't have the skills!! However, I've only been to Glenmere Park once before, and I'd forgotten how awesome the breeding Heron and Egret racket is. Some of them, the Snowy or Cattle Egrets, make Donald Duck noises! Also awesome, the constant Black-crowned Night Heron flyover, going from island to park trees and back again gathering sticks.
Strangely, I did manage a new bird today. Common as they are, I've managed to
miss Cattle Egrets. They're lovely. Granted I'll still be making some return trips
in search of the YCNH, but they were nice regardless.
