LITTLETON - An Easter egg brings out the rowdy side of most kids. They can be seen digging, crawling and searching across the lawn, then diving for that candy-filled egg they have spotted.
For some kids, the hunt is more about listening.
The chirping Easter egg hunt put on by Qwest Pioneers is all about reaching out - in a sonic fashion - to visually impaired kids.
About 55 visually-impaired children from across the Denver metro area got to join in the hunt Saturday at the Qwest Mineral Building in Littleton. The eggs are engineered with circuit boards, batteries and telephone speakers to put out a chirp-like beeping sound.
Just like they do with so many tasks in life, the kids at the hunt lean on their hearing, and a bit of patience, to find what they're looking for.
Once a kid locates a noisy egg, they sometimes run, and sometimes they sprint, for it.
The kid can trade the beeping beacon in for some of the good stuff.
"I know how cool it is just to find Easter eggs. You get to trade 'em in for candy. That's one of my favorite parts. I'm a candy thief," Evan Starnes, an egg hunter, said.
The Qwest Pioneers are retired Qwest employees who have put on the chirping egg hunt for 27 years.
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