Fountain Creek Regional Park and Nature Center

Fountain Creek Nature Center
Fountain Creek Nature Center
	Fountain Creek Nature Center, with Pikes Peak in the distance
Location	Peppergrass Lane, Fountain, CO
Coordinates	38°42′49.15″N104°42′56.71″W / 38.7136528°N 104.7157528°W Coordinates: 38°42′49.15″N104°42′56.71″W / 38.7136528°N 104.7157528°W
Operated by	El Paso County, Colorado

Last updated April 02, 2019

Fountain Creek Regional Park and Nature Center is a park and nature center in Fountain, El Paso County, Colorado near Colorado Springs.^[1]

Fountain is a Home Rule Municipality located in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 25,846.

El Paso County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. The 2017 census estimate recorded an approximate population of 699,232 for El Paso County. The Census Bureau's 2017 estimate indicates it is the second-most populous county in Colorado, after the City and County of Denver. The county seat is Colorado Springs, the second most populous city in Colorado.

Overview

The park is free with a nature center and nature trails for hiking, leashed pet walking and horseback riding. The nature center is open Tuesday through Saturday.^[1]

The park's ponds and springs are a sanctuary to waterfowl, wildlife and birds, like red-winged blackbirds.^[2]

The red-winged blackbird is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States. Claims have been made that it is the most abundant living land bird in North America, as bird-counting censuses of wintering red-winged blackbirds sometimes show that loose flocks can number in excess of a million birds per flock and the full number of breeding pairs across North and Central America may exceed 250 million in peak years. It also ranks among the best-studied wild bird species in the world. The red-winged blackbird is sexually dimorphic; the male is all black with a red shoulder and yellow wing bar, while the female is a nondescript dark brown. Seeds and insects make up the bulk of the red-winged blackbird's diet.

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References

1 2 Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (14 June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-7627-6936-0.
↑ Angela Thaden Hahn (24 February 2014). SecurityWidefield. Arcadia Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4671-3092-9.

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[DuVal_p._133-1] 1 2 Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (14 June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-7627-6936-0.

[2] Angela Thaden Hahn (24 February 2014). SecurityWidefield. Arcadia Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4671-3092-9.