This afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:
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April 15, 2024
April 14, 2024
This morning a House Wren visited my back yard . . . at least a couple of weeks earlier in the spring than in past years, and one of the first reported in Jefferson County this year.
Here it is calling:
April 13, 2024
This morning at Rocky Mountain Arsenal:
At an urban park:
In the mid-afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt, all the owls looked hot and cranky:
April 12, 2024
All three owlets in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:
Another view:
Mama Great Horned Owl was across Bear Creek, preening:
A dapper Song Sparrow:
April 11, 2024
In the Bear Creek Greenbelt, the Great Horned Owl nest is crowded these days, especially when one of the owlets stretches its wings:
Mama Great Horned Owl remains off the nest most of the time. She does some wing-stretching herself.
Motherhood is tiring:
And messy, requiring clean-up:
April 10, 2024
At lunchtime on a bike ride I ran across a Golden Eagle, perched above a prairie dog town, in the Bear Creek Greenbelt.
After work I returned to the greenbelt.
Mama Great Horned Owl was off the nest, perched in a tree across Bear Creek. Here she is stretching, and perched:
The Cinnamon Teal were still in Bear Creek.
And here’s a Mallard drake with a bum wing:
In the Smaller Bird Department:
April 9, 2024
April 7, 2024
The day started very windy, but the Great Horned Owl nest in the Bear Creek Greenbelt was still intact, with all three owlets. Here’s one:
Mama Great Horned Owl was off the nest, preening.
Eventually she flew back to the nest with dinner.
Papa Great Horned Owl was nearby, unflappable:
Owls are not the only predators in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:
April 6, 2024
Today there’s a high wind warning and a red flag warning, the latter indicating critical fire weather conditions. Though it’s sunny, temps are in the mid 40s and the winds are blowing 40-50 mph, with gusts much higher.
Here’s how Papa Great Horned Owl is coping in the Bear Creek Greenbelt this afternoon:
Meanwhile, across the creek Mama Great Horned Owl was hunkered down in the nest with the owlets:
Another view:
Even the waterfowl felt the wind!