[Douglbirds] The pits

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The McClain pit, this afternoon, had a plethora of Lesser Scaups -- I counted 68 and probably a few had dived underwater as I scoped the pond. Also a few other ducks (Gadwalls mostly and six Common Mergansers), and three each Ring-billed and California Gulls. Also two Greater Yellowlegs. 

The Great Horned Owls about which I reported before -- on Walker Road driving in to the Walker pit -- have at least two young now. The sitter (female?) has perched higher and higher on the nest this past week, and this afternoon, with the help of a scope, we could see at least two white fuzzy things over the rim of the nest.

Walker had fewer birds -- maybe a dozen scaup, a few goldeneyes, and some geese. 

Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO 

McClain: 1/4 mile west of the traffic light in Franktown, on Colo. 86, south on CAstlewood Canyon Road 1/3 mile, on the left. Park at the gate and look across.
Walker: 1/4 mile farther west on Colo. 86, turn right (north) on Walker Road. 
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