Winter/Pacific Wren at Pella Crossing, Boulder County

[Bill Prather]

At about 11 AM today a Winter/Pacific Wren was observed at Pella Crossing, Boulder County south of Hygiene. We saw it for brief looks 3 times over a 20 minute period as close as 10 feet.  It seemed to be very ruddy for a Winter Wren but I did not not anything definitive for either species and it was completely silent.  The location was in the Marlatt section of the park, west of 75th Street.  There are toilets near the far southwest side and the bird was along the ditch that crosses a path just east of those toilets.  It did not seem to be particularly shy but very good at keeping out of sight as is typical.