Annual Fountain Creek Nature Center Spring Bird Count

   It's windy, cold, with a chance of snow so it must be Spring on the Front Range and time for the Fountain Creek Nature Center Spring Bird Count.  Located at 320 Pepper Grass Lane, Fountain, CO 80817, the nature center is just a short drive from all over town and a great place to bird year round.  You can find a local birder somewhere in the park almost every day of the year.

   We all me at the nature center at 07:00 and got our assigned areas and formed up our teams.  After some coffee and doughnuts it was time to hit the trails and find those birds.

 

   We had areas 3 and 4 to count so we moved out smartly and headed down the trail to see what we could see.  In no time at all we had a large amount of Red-winged Black birds and it was clear that some warblers were passing through.  Most of the warblers were busy finding food and gobbling up as much as they could. There seemed to be a lack of ducks and water foul but it was still a beautiful day and there were other birds to look at.  One treat was the Great-horned Owls and owlet just across the run off from the damn.  Here are some of the birds we saw in areas 3 and 4.