Swallows + tanagers @ Denver City Park

[Patrick O'Driscoll]

After an uncommonly quiet spring migration thusfar in Denver City Park, the weekend snowstorm stirred things up a little.

Saturday morning found at least 60 Violet-green Swallows fluttering low and slow over the surface of Duck Lake, catching breakfast. The most of those there in previous memory was maybe 10.

Over in the "pinetum" grove of conifers beneath the south wall of the Denver Museum of Nature + Science, the season's first Western Tanagers, four males, picked through spruces and junipers.

Patrick O'Driscoll

Denver