Hi Everyone-- This morning 6/21, Marcia Marvin and I hiked down from the Green Mountain Lodge trailhead to the upper end of the steep part of the Gregory Canyon Trail. We ran into two park rangers, one of whom was carrying a very large rifle with a scope on it. The rangers explained that fox squirrels had been biting people. I assume that the people in question had been feeding the squirrels, but this didn't quite suffice as a reason to be carrying something so powerful. Anyway, we proceeded on, and maybe 1/4 mile down from the top of Gregory Canyon, we took a stub of a trail toward the creek to try to locate a singing Virginia's Warbler, which we did not see, but in the process, we heard several snatches of Poor-will song downhill from us. It was 10:30am, an ungodly hour for a Poor-will to be awake, and we were concerned that we had disturbed it, so we went back to the main trail. We did not get as far down as pole #2. We saw some butterflies that looked like Common Alpines, and an American Lady.
Speaking of fox squirrels, we saw an all-black one in the central park of the Progress section of Longmont on 6/19. I didn't know we had those here (my former home town in California had fair numbers of them). Mark Miller Longmont, CO --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
