Green Heron, Lake Estes, Estes Park, Larimer Co. 10/2
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Jim Nelson
Oct 2, 2015, 4:54:39 PM10/2/15
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We've been enjoying a nice fall visit in Colorado for the past week, but, until today, I didn't have anything special to report.
This morning we had a nice sunny walk in the Matthews-Reeser Bird Sanctuary at Lake Estes in Estes Park. We were out on the pine covered peninsula that juts into the lake, when we heard an unusual sound. My wife was the first to spot what turned out to be a hatch-year Green Heron. It was perched in a ponderosa pine near the water and then flew to the marshy end of the inlet on the west side of the peninsula. Checking eBird I found only one other report from the Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park area -- at Lake Estes on two days in May 2003, and no other reports for Larimer County above the edge of the foothills. A nice county bird for us.
Jim Nelson
Bethesda, Maryland
This morning we had a nice sunny walk in the Matthews-Reeser Bird Sanctuary at Lake Estes in Estes Park. We were out on the pine covered peninsula that juts into the lake, when we heard an unusual sound. My wife was the first to spot what turned out to be a hatch-year Green Heron. It was perched in a ponderosa pine near the water and then flew to the marshy end of the inlet on the west side of the peninsula. Checking eBird I found only one other report from the Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park area -- at Lake Estes on two days in May 2003, and no other reports for Larimer County above the edge of the foothills. A nice county bird for us.
Jim Nelson
Bethesda, Maryland
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