Similar to last year, I've limited my spring driving and have kept almost all of my birding to walking distance. I added a few more birds for 2025 with trips down to the park and the sewage lagoons over in Breckenridge, but most of my time spent birding happened at the kitchen window.
This winter (now past!) was my third season of Project FeederWatch.
I wasn't able to enter as many counts through the winter as previous years, but the season still netted many interesting observations. Perhaps the most surprising thing I witnessed was two consecutive days without a house sparrow at my feeders. In 2022-2023, my count peaked at 132 house sparrows. This season, my highest count was 20, and more often than not the number of house sparrows at the feeders was in the single digits (my lowest count in '22-23 was 19).
As for Chahinkapa, I was happy to add Vesper Sparrow to the eBird birds list and to see a Brown Creeper up close!
My other April trips rendered few decent photos but satisfying if not exciting sightings.
