First Goldeneye, End Osprey?

On this cool, sunny morning time along the Colorado Front Range, I visited South Platte Park.  There I encountered a skillful diversity of waterfowl, including the showtime mutual goldeneye of the season; the attractive manful somebody was line-fishing past times himself on the clear waters of Eaglewatch Lake.  I was likewise fortunate to detect a solitary osprey, peradventure the final 1 I volition reckon at the Park this year.

Common goldeneyes breed across Alaska in addition to Canada in addition to wintertime primarily inwards coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Canadian Maritimes, New England in addition to the mid Atlantic Region.  Though less common, others wintertime on lakes across nearly of the United States in addition to at to the lowest degree a few dozen pass the colder months at South Platte Park, feasting on a broad diversity of aquatic creatures, from invertebrates to crustaceans in addition to modest fish.

Ospreys, on the other hand, are summertime residents hither in addition to a dyad accept been nesting at the Park inwards recent years.  More mutual along the North American coasts, inwards the Pacific Northwest in addition to inwards the Great Lakes Region, these "fish hawks" caput for southern shores during the colder months in addition to I suspect that this morning's visitor was on his way.