The Evergreen Nature Center at Bancroft House has now been open for eight sequential months and has welcomed roughly 720 adults and 320 kids, forRead More
On a chilly, snowy Saturday we visited ten different small reservoirs in northern Adams and Weld Counties. Additionally, we also managed to find a much appreciated Taco John’s in Greeley. Given what a bone-chilling day it was we were pleased to record 62 species.
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.
written by Carl Safina, W. W. Norton, 2023review by JoAnn Hackos Carl Safina is well known for his numerous books on animals: Becoming Wild, BeyondRead More
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.