COBirders,
During this centennial year for Garden of the Gods Park (free), I finally saw my first-of-the-year flock of WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS today, 18 March, high over South Gateway Rock. I didn't hear any making their characteristic flight calls. Perhaps because there is both a very good pinon and juniper fruit crop, there seems to be more JUNIPER TITMICE, here, this year than in previous years, and they are calling from most of the ridges that have both pinons and junipers, plus from a few canyon bottoms as well. There is a small flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS feeding on juniper berries amongst the throngs of AMERICAN ROBINS and spring break tourists in the "garden" proper. There were calling CANYON WRENS on both North and South Gateway Rocks, along with the active PRAIRIE FALCON pair on North Gateway Rock. A COMMON RAVEN was bringing sticks to a hole on the west side of North Gateway Rock, near the formation called The Tower of Babel. BUSHTITS (common in this county) were bopping around in mountain mahogany and skunkbush along the park boundary trail to the north and west of the "garden". Bill Maynard Colorado Springs ____________________________________________________________ Save on Digital Photography Serivces and Hardware. Click Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTDvmR28fKvKRZYu3Yt21WjCzQ9m8JqW5Z6f2gjEGziW6ASeh7npa4/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
