First of all, no participants or spotting scopes were blown over and it didn’t rain or snow.  Additionally, on the positive side, there were only a few people visiting the park on a Saturday morning, so it didn’t feel so overrun.  

The need for our nest boxes remains! In contrast to the March 2023 nestbox sales, Saturday, March 23, 2024, was a sunny, pleasant, Colorado mountainRead More

The main highlight of the morning was a female Rusty Blackbird foraging among the small rounded boulders along Clear Creek.  Rusties are the least well-known North American blackbirds, breeding in wet subarctic taiga forests along bogs, muskeg swamps, and beaver ponds, and wintering in the eastern United States south of the Great Lakes and occurring rarely in Colorado. 

And Evergreen Audubon is springing into action like never before:  Spring Break hours and family programs at Evergreen Nature Center – the first time we’veRead More

The peak of waterfowl migration is roughly March through April.  So, start making good plans for getting out and greeting the arriving migrants.