Yellow-bellied Sapsucker continues at Washington Park, Denver

[Charles Hundertmark]

Pat O’Driscoll and I visited Washington Park this morning to scout a Denver Field Ornithologists project to monitor nesting colonial waterbirds. We stopped at the grove of conifers where the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker has been previously seen. After a few minutes of scouring tree trunks, Pat spotted the sapsucker about 2/3 of the way up a large pine. The bird gave us intermittent looks as it probed the bark and frequently scooted behind a branch or around the trunk.

Smith Lake hosted about 5 Hooded Mergansers swimming among the shovelers and white-cheeked geese.

A European Starling in gaudy breeding plumage was singing persistently on a branch stump that probably contained a cozy cavity.

Chuck Hundertmark
303-604-0531

[Joe Roller]

At 8:30  today, Saturday, Kara Carragher and Lisa Edwards found that sapsucker in its usual 

haunts - the conifer grove at the far north end of Washington Park, Denver.

It was near "tree number 5" which stands between the bike/jogging road

and Smith Lake. 

Earlier they confirmed that the Dunlin continued at the east end of McLellen Reservoir,

Arapahoe.

Joe Roller,

Denver