Approximately thirty intrepid souls attended the chilly 2022 Dawn Chorus at Evergreen Lake on Sunday, May 1.  It may have been a bit cold initially, but it was a clear, calm morning with a beautiful sunrise and warm comradery. 

We had great weather for our Saturday visit to the oxymoronic Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.  This extensive 16,000-acre refuge immediately north of Denver has quite a history progressing from native shortgrass prairie to farmland to twenty years of chemical weapons manufacturing.

Possibly one of the most powerful ways we can help birds is to buy Bird-Friendly certified coffee.  

While Harriman Lake can generally be one of the better west-metro lakes for good waterfowl diversity, we came away on Saturday with only forty total ducks from eight species and with only one individual representing a couple of those.

Here in the Evergreen area we live in close proximity to six species of woodpeckers that annually excavate a new cavity for each year’s nest.

By popular demand we did back-to-back raptor trips on successive Saturdays in February, and the second one was as thrilling as the first one.