As with prior springs, this was a productive outing visiting ponds and wetlands in Weld County, and we ended up with 58 species.
Spring has always been variable here in Colorado’s Front Range, and as a result, predicting where the birds will be is always a bit of a guessing game. Well, eleven Evergreen Audubon guessed well and showed up bright and earlyRead More
written by Jamie Simo In 2019, the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative Committee released a bombshell report announcing that, since 1970, the U.S. has lost almost 3 billion birds. Last year, its updated report revealed that bird populations areRead More
Instead of our puffiest jackets, hand warmers and wool hats, we traded those in for sun hats, dark glasses and sunscreen with our warmest weather recorded for the annual Evergreen Audubon Nestbox sale in many years…and we’ve been doing thisRead More
“In my lifetime, North America has lost more than 3 billion birds. This is a catastrophe playing out on a planetary scale. We are reaching a tipping point for birds, magnified by the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climateRead More
The whole Bear Creek riparian corridor from Morrison to the confluence with the South Platte can harbor some interesting birds, and both the Bear Creek Greenbelt and Bear Creek Park have ponds and good patches of wetlands.
We caught a small taste of winter for the start to our Saturday visit to the oxymoronic Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, but then the day warmed up nicely. This extensive 16,000-acre refuge immediately north of Denver has quite aRead More
Winter months can be a fantastic time for viewing waterfowl along the Front Range, but opportunities can vary with our wild winter weather. Warmer temperatures can mean more open water, especially on shallow reservoirs, offering opportunities to see species thatRead More
