Hermit Thrush & Pygmies - Blackmer Lake (Arapahoe)

[Jared Del Rosso]

This morning (12/23), a Hermit Thrush was along the High Line Canal Trail around Blackmer Lake (Arapahoe); this is presumably the same one as was at Blackmer in early-December. Both times, the bird has been just west of the S. Dahlia St. parking lot and trailhead for the canal trail I also heard at least one, possibly more, Pygmy Nuthatches calling from pines around the mansions on the canal. 

Hermit Thrushes appear to have spent most of December at Blackmer and Ketring Lakes in westish Arapahoe. I haven't seen the one that was at deKoevend in November for some time now, but I haven't really looked for it. 

And yesterday, while bringing out my trash, I picked up my first yard (Centennial) Brown Creeper. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO