We were surrounded by an abundance of showy alpine flowers that were generally easy to identify, and we were gratified to be out on the tundra on a beautiful morning.
Author: Chuck Aid
Nine of us took a very leisurely stroll up to Beaver Meadows this past Saturday, and, in fact, it was so leisurely that we barelyRead More
Our crew of bird walk participants met at the Camp Rock Campground at 7:30 on Saturday morning, just three days after the Mount Evans State Wildlife Area was opened to the public.
As Saturday’s participants will attest Beaver Ranch, which is operated and managed by a local non-profit in agreement with Jeffco Open Space, is an “interesting” place.
The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies in conjunction with Denver Audubon has been running the banding station at Chatfield State Park each spring at the peak of landbird migration for about thirty years. In the fall, with a focus again on migrant landbirds, a comparable effort is conducted at Barr Lake State Park.
The water continues very high at Harriman Lake and there is no shoreline to speak of. Apparently, most of the ducks have vamoosed northward, and even though we are in the midst of shorebird migration we didn’t see a single one – not even a Killdeer.