< I stopped and scanned through them and was rewarded with at least six adult male Yellow-headed Blackbirds among the hordes. It often pays to search through large flocks of birds.>
As Tony states, it does pay to look at flocks of birds. I also found 2 Yellow-headed Blackbirds and 1 Brown-headed Cowbird in a fairly small mixed flock of about 100 Red-winged and Brewers Blackbirds and Starlings over the week-end. All 11 Greater White-fronted Geese continue near MacKenzie Ave in Canon City including the one immature. Nearby I saw an adult dark Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk. Today I was privileged to watch two Red foxes engage in mating behavior. I have posted a photo of them together and chronicled the activity on my blog at http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com . The post below it is my experience looking for the putative, though now disputed, Pine Flycatcher that was being seen less than 20 miles from the highway on my way home from So Texas just over a week ago. It was a good lesson in how even a national expert can get caught up in the feeding frenzy surrounding a possible first U.S. record bird that he failed to consider there might be more than one flycatcher in the area (as did many others including me)! I did, however, see the Purple Sandpiper on So Padre Island and the Crimson-collared Grosbeak at Frontera Audubon (photos I took of both birds are on my blog) and lots of great endemics (and I participated in a CBC with a count total over 170). SeEtta Moss Canon City http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
