alright, spring/ summer migrants are starting to appear. yay!
Cormorants have showed up at one of their islands I know about-- off Clear Creek north and a tad east of Applewood. One of my favorite birding areas-- about a mile of riparian habitat with big cottonwoods, the creek running through, cattails, lots of brush too. First saw the cedar waxwings in there, and the ruby-crowned kinglet, and lots of water birds. But anyways, yep-- the cormorants are back. Probably a good 50 of them on their trashy little island (northern shovelers had the winter rental on the unit, but they've relinquished any claim to it at this point.
Cool thing is there's one pair of great blues nestled in there as well. So, a whole gaggle of cormorants and two blues...
Townsends solitaires have just showed up at my place of work-- the old Loretto Heights campus in southwest Denver. Hasn't been a whole lot going on here through the winter months. Though I did set up a feeder for awhile which brought squirrels more than anything, and then the red-tailed hawk which nailed one of 'em for lunch one day. Seen by me as I was just heading out of the building for my own lunchtime walk.
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