Yellow-crowned Night Heron

[Jim Esten]

No-name pond at 53rd and Himalaya, next to a golf course. In addition:: 8 American Pelicans, 2 bluejays, 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers (Audubon), 1 Goldfinch, Great Horned Owl nest with 3 owlets (I'm told, I saw 2), Red-tailed Hawk nest with 2 adults. Very birdy for such a dinky wooded area.  

Jim Esten

Denver, CO

[Mark Obmascik]

This is nuts! It must be the same bird John Breitsch has found and refound over the years at this same spot. 

Of all the water across all this continent, this one creature of the wet southern climes keeps returning to a scrubby pond a mile above sea level off a closing hole of a nondescript golf course in the Great Plains.

Birds -- go figure.

Good birding,

Mark Obmascik

Denver, CO

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I'm sure this is the same bird.  The pond is what I call Dunkirk Pond (Himalaya changes to Dunkirk St just south of 53rd) and is a main feature of the First Creek at Green Valley Ranch Trail.   This is the same spot that has had the Blackburnian Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, several other eastern warblers, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Woodhouse's Scrub-jay, White-throated Sparrow, Field Sparrow, etc (I'm getting tired of naming them all).  

John Breitsch

Denver, Colorado

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