Burrowing Owls Douglas County

[Dan Stringer]

At 5:30 this evening there was a Burrowing Owl just before the south entrance to Chatfield State Park (Douglas Co), in the prairie dog colony on the west side fairly close to the road. So, I turned around and drove the dirt part of Roxborough Park Rd S of Titan Road. Sure enough, a single Burrowing Owl in the west side prairie dog colony there. Burrowing Owls arriving in spring often seem to spend a night or two in a given location(s) before picking their neighborhood. It'd be nice to see one stay in Chatfield, dodging the flying objects from the nearby model airplane field.

Dan Stringer

Larkspur, CO