01/27/2024
It's been a while since I put up a few bird photos, so I thought it was about time. The year started off with quite a bang; I joined Mike Serruto for a Christmas Bird Count in the morning of New Year's Day. Then I rushed over to Wheatridge, where there was all kinds of excitement going on along Clear Creek. There were several levels of rarities being seen, and some interesting, if not exactly rare, birds. The real surprise was a Cape may warbler, which in January should be somewhere in the West Indies. A somewhat off-range black phoebe joined the party, and a small flock of rusty blackbirds showed up. Some not uncommon but very interesting species were there, too, including American dipper and Wilson's snipe.
