Lake Arbor

Lake Arbor, about a 10 acre or so urban lake is about a half mile down Pomona Drive from our house.  Rocky and I - Connie also on weekends - walk around it almost every day.  There's always waterfowl on the lake.  In the winter it's the colorful winter ducks.  This time of year the summer residents are coming in plus lots of migrants passing through.  Some days I take my camera to document what we see. There are a lot of huge carp in the lake that are just now starting to jump.  Will be another couple weeks before they start thrashing around in the shallows spawning.

Cattle egret in breeding plumage at Lake Arbor, Arvada, Colorado, April 26, 2017.

Another cattle egret at Lake Arbor.  Been four to six at the lake flying around and grazing for several days.  

Always quite a few double-crested cormorants working the lake, but this morning I counted 22.  I think a lot  are migrants. 

Have seen eared-grebes at the lake on several occasions in the spring.  This one was here on the 26th.

Black-crowned night herons are common summer residents at the lake.  This one was fishing on the 26th.