Jefferson mostly

[David Suddjian]

Yesterday (11/30) I checked Denver West Office Park. No true rarities, but seasonal rarities included an Orange-crowned Warbler and Audubon's Yellow-rumped warbler. Also 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 5 Brown Creepers, a relatively large flock of 36 Bushtits, Hairy Woodpecker and pretty flocks of Cedar Waxwings and American Robins.

Red Rocks Trading Post had the usual mix of feeding birds, plus a fly -over adult Ferruginous Hawk.

South Platte Reservoir had 2 continuing female Surf Scoters, still in the JeffCo corner. Cooley Lake (Arapahoe) had a 3rd cycle Lesser Black-backed Gull.

This morning (12/1) Chatfield Reservoir had 2 female Surf Scoters and a Common Loon. The scoters were initially near the dam in Jefferson, then flew around for a while and finally put down in Douglas north of the Handicapped Fisherman Platform. Perhaps these were the same two as from just across C470 at South Platte Reservoir, but I did not have time to go back over there to check if any scoters were still there. Three American Pipits were on the south side of the North Boat Launch peninsula.

On the home front, a few Cassin's Finches have been around my yard for a few days, my first here this fall, and Pine Siskin numbers have bumped way up over the last few days.

David Suddjian

Littleton, CO