During the Pandemic, Colorado Has Gone to the Birds...and Birdwatchers
“We’ve got bush tits, northern flickers , white and red-breasted nuthatches!” exclaims ten-year-old Marieva O’Neil. Her list of local fowl sounds foul, even pornographic, but it’s simply a small sampling of the birds she’s spotted in her backyard. “There’s a brown creeper,” she adds. “It’s invisible to adults, but I’m able to see it, especially when it moves to grab a bug.” O’Neil and her mother live in the Hilltop neighborhood, on what they’d thought was a busy cross street — until the pandemic slowed life down. “I’m just surprised that there are so many d...
Source: westword.com