We took a two-mile stroll along Fountain Creek at this nature preserve south of Colorado Springs. The day had turned cloudy and breezy, and the place looked like January, but we had a pleasant hour or so looking at birds and Pikes Peak.
American Coot
Common Mergansers, Pied-billed Grebes, and a Canada Goose.
Canada Geese and a Hooded Merganser.
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-winged Blackbird singing
White-crowned Sparrow and female Red-winged Blackbirds
White-crowned Sparrow and an Eastern Fox Squirrel (introduced to the area and considered a pest)
Birds we saw:
- Black-capped Chickadee
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- House Finch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Hooded Merganser
- Common Merganser
- Mallard
- Northern Shoveler
- Ring-necked Duck
- Canada Goose
- Pied-billed Grebe
- American Coot
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Dark-eyed (Gray-headed) Junco