St vrain state park

We have never gotten the extended kingfisher serenade that we get here. Two kingfishers, perched in the tall trees, stopping to fish now and then, chattering/rattling all day long.

We see flocks of chipping sparrows in Colorado in the summer. We only see a few in winter. We were watching a couple in a bush here, reddish head, dark eye-line, when one turned and we saw the central breast dot. Chipping sparrows don’t have a central breast dot. Back to the book. Chipping sparrows go away in the first part of November. American tree sparrows show up in November. American tree sparrow. A new bird. I’m sure it’s not that we’ve never seen it before, but it’s the first time we’ve identified it. A new bird for November.