Barr Lake Sunday / Adams

[Dave Cameron]

Struck out on the aforementioned Gray-cheeked at Barr yesterday, but the stretch from the visitor's center to the blind was extremely birdy and entertaining.  Highlights were an adult male Orchard Oriole, 3 Forster's Terns, a late female Common Merganser, a handful of Lincoln's Sparrows, scads of Bullock's Orioles, many Swainson's Thrushes, a pair of Eastern Kingbirds, and, on the ride out, an adult Bald Eagle sitting on a nest outside the park-- on the East side of E-470 at 120th. 

 

Dave Cameron

Denver

[Dave Cameron]

Re: the Bald Eagle, it struck us as odd that there would be a nest less than a mile from the one in the park, assuming that that one is in use this year.  We were whizzing past on the bike at the time, and so didn't have the chance to do more than make note of it.  So I couldn't say for sure it was an eagle nest; merely that it was a nest with an eagle sitting near it.

 

dc