Denver Post “Foes of five-story apartment project at edge of Lakewood’s Belmar Park gear up for battle: “Hell no, it’s not done” by John Aguilar (jaguilar@denverpost.com) | December 22, 2023

"A raft of ducks perched and waddled on the frozen surface of a pond at Belmar Park on a recent fall morning — foreground bustle for a double-crested cormorant rookery located on a small island just offshore.

This 132-acre park in the middle of Lakewood, Colorado’s fifth-largest city, is tagged as a “hotspot” on eBird.com, where birders have recorded sightings of more than 230 bird species — many of them migratory — in the park, including the Northern shoveler, the cedar waxwing and the dark-eyed junco."

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