Wild Birds at Red Rocks park

I went for a drive up to Red Rocks Park on Sunday 13th Feb 2011 to take a few photos of the red rocks after a recent snow.  There were a lot of bird feeding in the backyard of the visitors center.  I came across a couple of bird watchers who pointed out a couple of birds that were rare  in the Colorado mountain area. I was able to capture a couple of shot of these rare birds: 
The first was an Eastern Towhee.  

This birds habitat is  generally in the southeastern US east of the Mississippi River.
 The second was the Curved-bill Thrasher.

This birds usual habitat is in Arizona, new Mexico, Texas and northern Mexico
There were also a lot of the ubiquitous Western Scrub Jays.

These guys were all over the place and can be seen various place in the rocky mountain states.  
And in case you were wondering there was a little snow left at the park as seen in this photo:

It was a beautiful day with the temperature in the 60s and lots of sun shine, the snow was melting fast..  This is really amazing, since the previous Tuesday the high temp for the day was 2 degrees F.   The old saying 'if you don't like the weather in Denver, just wait 5 minutes'  was never more true then this week (smile).