As the season warms up, the birds return to our mountain neighborhood.
Ever wonder how many different birds we’ve seen here over the years?
We have folks who’ve lived here who have made a record for us. Among the earliest were Howard and Mary Alice Evans, who lived in a cliff-top home in Filing 7, facing the Mummy Range.
Howard was a devoted naturalist, a noted entomologist, faculty member of Colorado State University; Mary Alice was a science educator who co-authored several of Howard’s noted books and articles.
While they explored our trails and open spaces, they created the stopping points along the way in Crellin Trail, as they wrote about in their book A Naturalist’s Years in the Rocky Mountains.
They also started a Birdlist, which was updated after they moved back to the city and kept alive by a later resident, Jim Chisholm, who created a new list in 2000. Recently, we came across this treasure of a record as we’ve been redoing the Glacier View Meadows website.
2019 GVM Resident Terry Campbell has shared his expertise as a biologist to update the list, reorganize it by bird family names, and create a newer, user-friendly format. He verified the accuracy with neighbors Morris Clark and David Robertson.
We share it with the GVM community now.
Thanks for your work on this, Terry.
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What fun history! And that comprehensive list is such a treasure. Wow!