Lots of change and action at Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer) this morning.
Highlights: big influx of American Robins (mostly in berry-laden junipers) big influx of Brown Creepers big influx of Dark-eyed Juncos (mostly pink-sided, a few slate-colored, one Oregon) big influx of Yellow-rumped Warblers (feeding in many different situations, tree species) Plumbeous Vireo (1) late, in American elms and silver maple (presumably getting aphids in both trees) Chipping Sparrow (1 large flock) still present as it has been for the last month or so Chickadees of both species "everywhere", mostly in spruce and Douglas-fir Red-breasted Nuthatches (20+, hard to say how many) frenzied activity, mostly extracting and caching Douglas-fir seeds White-crowned Sparrow (1i, gambeli) not a common visitor to the cemetery Hairy Woodpecker (1m) strictly working on dead spruce branches, different individual trees (longhorned borers?) Hackberry psyllids still mostly unhatched Dave Leatherman Fort Collins PS - When I was at Crow Valley yesterday, I met Tom Wilberding from Boulder, who described a bird seen briefly on a table in the Main Picnic Shelter area that sounded a lot like a Varied Thrush. I checked out all the "robins" and didn't see one with a chest band. But Joe Roller's report from today makes me think one was there yesterday and Tom was right. Has any Colorado location had more Varied Thrushes than Crow Valley? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
