Charming American Goldfinches
American Goldfinches are charming birds that resemble canaries. Males are bright yellow with black caps and black wings making them easy to spot.
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Year-round
Providing full year interest.
Quaking Aspen trees
Quaking Aspen Trees are found in the mountains in groves. They are known for their display of gold leaves in the fall.
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Cattails
Cattails are plants with long flat leaves that are found in marshy areas around ponds. In this area, there are two main types: Broadleaf cattail and Narrowleaf cattail.
Red-winged Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbirds are known as marsh birds, and that is where you will find them in the Willow Spring Open Space. If you look among the willows and cattails, you can see and hear their large numbers.
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Mallards
Mallards are ducks which frequently are seen in pairs. That’s helpful, because the female is easily confused with other ducks, but the male has a bright metallic green head and neck.
128 Species of Birds in Willow Spring Open Space!
Due to the variety of habitats, there are many species of birds in the Willow Spring Open Space, both year-round and also those that are seasonal.
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Sandbar Willow Shrub
Sandbar Willow shrubs grow along the banks of streams and on floodplains in multi-stemmed thickets, with branches up to 8 feet tall.
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Russian Olive Trees
Russian Olive trees are considered invasive plants in Colorado. They are easily recognized by thin, silvery leaves and thorns on the branches coming out next to the leaf stalks.
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Green Ash Trees
Green Ash trees are fast-growing tall trees which turn gold in the fall. They can be recognized by the X pattern on the bark and the branches opposite each other.
Majestic Plains Cottonwood Trees
The Plains Cottonwood tree is a large, dominant tree found along stream and river beds where more moisture is available than in the grasslands of the Plains.
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