Lewis's Woodpecker, Jeffco

[Hugh Kingery]

    During lunch today, our Audubon bird class watched a flycatching woodpecker at the Audubon Nature Center. Through a scope we confirmed it as a Lewis's. It perched in the top of a noticeable dead tree well into the Denver Waterboard property, and flew out every minute or three in a flycatching mode.

    If it stays in this section, you will need a scope to see it decently; you could try either from the Trail Circle east of the Nature Center or possibly the Waterton parking lot.

We also saw an Osprey and heard a late Gray Catbird.

Hugh Kingery