On 3/4, I went to Brush Hollow, Tunnel Drive, and the Cañon City Riverwalk in search of Pinyon Jay, Juniper Titmouse, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, and Evening Grosbeak. I didn’t see any of the birds I was hoping to find. Here’s what I did see.
These two Hairy Woodpeckers were chasing each other back and forth through a small section of woods for at least 20 minutes.
Dark-eyed Junco. I think this may be an intergrade between the Oregon and Slate-colored types. It has the pattern of an Oregon Junco, but none of the warm tones.
Audubon’s (Yellow-rumped) Warblers
On the 13th, I went to Stratton Open Space to look for a Northern Goshawk. No luck, but I did get photos of some of the many Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jays.
On Wednesday, March 16, I hiked around South Platte Park in search of a Sedge Wren that has been hanging around there for a couple months. I neither saw or heard a hint of it. I did, however, see …
White-breasted Nuthatch
Common Goldeneye
Two Bushtits. The females have yellow eyes.
Wild Turkeys (seen just outside Chatfield State Park)
Not a bird I realize. Two separate Muskrats. I see them often in the Platte River just north of Chatfield.
On 3/24 I birded at Fountain Creek Regional Park. A Cooper’s Hawk relaxed and preened in a cottonwood along the parking lot when I arrived.
One of two Lincoln’s Sparrows.
The Rusty Blackbird that hung around all winter is molting into summer plumage.
