Nests

Over my lunch hour, I took my usual walk around the park. I had seen bluebirds for each of the past two mornings and heard some bluebird twittering from the north end of the park. Following the sound led me to a bluebird nest, with both parents bringing food to a nest cavity near the upper playground. Also in that area, I discovered a White-breasted Nuthatch nest cavity.

Since it's been a while since my last post, I'll just include a brief list of some of the notable species I've seen in the last couple of weeks (species I've never seen before marked with a *, species that i've not seen at powderhorn before marked with a +). Notice the relatively large number of flycatchers and unfortunately low numbers of warblers:

• black-crowned night-heron
• cooper's hawk
• spotted sandpiper
• chimney swift
• olive-sided flycatcher
• eastern wood-pewee+
• yellow-bellied flycatcher*
• least flycatcher
• great crested flycatcher
• blue-headed vireo*
• red-eyed vireo
• eastern bluebird
• swainson's thrush*
• orange-crowned warbler
• nashville warbler
• american redstart
• common yellowthroat
• lincoln's sparrow
• white-crowned sparrow+
• baltimore oriole+