Since returning to our Littleton farm before this week, I bring noticed that our summertime residents, responding to the solar cycle, bring left for warmer climes; family wrens, broad-tailed hummingbirds, swallows as well as blue-gray gnatcatchers no longer grace the belongings as well as I bring non observed whatever Swainson's hawks soaring overhead. On the other hand, our wintertime residents are dull to deed in, currently represented past times alone a dozen dark-eyed juncos as well as our lonely Townsend's solitaire.
Down at South Platte Park this morning, the wintertime ducks are commencement to look exactly the rank out of gadwalls, American wigeon, northern shovelers, hooded mergansers, buffleheads as well as American coot remains relatively depression for belatedly October. Flocks of Canada geese should increase dramatically over the side past times side ii weeks but, inward recent years, their arrival has been delayed.
Our foremost meaning snowfall may forcefulness around mount songbirds downward to the Piedmont exactly the waterfowl volition alone come upward southward if they necessitate to (i.e. when lakes as well as wetlands freeze upward north). As our climate warms, their autumn migration volition cause afterwards inward the twelvemonth and, eventually, may near downward altogether.
Down at South Platte Park this morning, the wintertime ducks are commencement to look exactly the rank out of gadwalls, American wigeon, northern shovelers, hooded mergansers, buffleheads as well as American coot remains relatively depression for belatedly October. Flocks of Canada geese should increase dramatically over the side past times side ii weeks but, inward recent years, their arrival has been delayed.
Our foremost meaning snowfall may forcefulness around mount songbirds downward to the Piedmont exactly the waterfowl volition alone come upward southward if they necessitate to (i.e. when lakes as well as wetlands freeze upward north). As our climate warms, their autumn migration volition cause afterwards inward the twelvemonth and, eventually, may near downward altogether.
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