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.
Author: Chuck Aid
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.