What a Tree!

Recently heard about this "Crane Tree" up near the Jeffco airport. I told the person reporting this to me that Cranes don't breed around here. She said they were just big birds that colonize this tree every spring, so I headed up to check it out. Right off 108th where it turns into the Jeffco airport commercial area is a large Cottonwood next to this medium sized pond on a golf course. There's a nice Great Blue Heron rookery of three or four nests. Also, a Great Horned family shares the same tree. A nice owlet sat on the nest, quickly molting into it's adult plumage. Didn't see it's folks. Cars were zipping by on the busy streets and a lawn crew was making a lot of noise mowing the grass. Didn't seem to bother either the Herons or the owl. It's amazing where some birds decide to make a home.