Vespers everywhere + Arrivals & "Persisters" - Arapahoe

[Jared Del Rosso]

I spent most of the morning birding around Littleton, Centennial, and Greenwood Village. Following the single Vesper Sparrow I had in my yard yesterday were flocks of Vesper Sparrows at Chapel Hill Memorial Garden (Centennial), David Lorenz Regional Park (technically, Douglas County), and Holly Park (Centennial). I'm sure others are experiencing this as well.

Others around...

• At Willow Spring Open Space...a Lincoln's Sparrow, a pair of Blue-winged Teals in the beaver pond, and a collection of five Black-crowned Night Herons there as well.
• At Holly Park...two Orange-crowned Warblers and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
• A Lincoln's Sparrow in my yard, going on a month now.
• The Harris's Sparrow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, which I haven't seen in about a month. (I presume it's the same one.) It's moved off of the hedgerow where it spent much of the winter. When I saw it today, it flushed into a juniper in the middle of the cemetery with a Vesper. 

- Jared Del Rosso
Centennial, CO