Huge gray herons with large yellow-orange bills, short black plumes on head, and chestnut patch on shoulder; at their nest in the branches of a dead cottonwood above a lake.

Highlights of March 23 Bird Walk at the Wheat Ridge Greenbelt

The main highlight of the morning was a female Rusty Blackbird foraging among the small rounded boulders along Clear Creek.  Rusties are the least well-known North American blackbirds, breeding in wet subarctic taiga forests along bogs, muskeg swamps, and beaver ponds, and wintering in the eastern United States south of the Great Lakes and occurring rarely in Colorado. 

Some Coffee Is for the Birds

Cultivation of coffee in monoculture, sun-grown coffee plantations with emphasis on high-production has horrendous consequences for migratory songbirds.

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