COBirders, Today, I found two Winter Wrens at Fountain Creek Regional Park. The first one, located in the dry irrigation bed between the footbridge (go south at visitor center, down the hill, cross the bridge, and walk to the dry channel under the next bridge) and Fountain Creek wier, is an eastern Winter Wren from the hiemalis group. The second bird was located south of southermost parking at Willow Springs, directly west of the regional trail (towards Fountain Creek) and adjacent to the sewage pond with the yellow pipe fence and by a rather new concrete milepost marker. For locals,this is the area where the Black Phoebe was found a few springs ago. This bird did not have a whitish throat, but was brownish; it had redder hues than the first bird, and had double-noted high-pitched squeaks for calls. I first heard the bird and then watched and listened to it, on-and-off for about an hour. I have photographs of both birds. I don't want to call it a representative of the pacificus group yet, but that is what I first thought it was. After John Drummond arrived, about 50 minutes after I first found the 2nd bird, we were able to locate both individuals again. The 2nd bird moved around over 70 yards in its forays, always below chest height and almost always in thick tangles that included fallen logs and large boulders on the Fountain Creek side of the main regional trail and by a narrow tributary running parallel to Fountain Creek. The first bird was first found under tall dense matted light brown grasses where the irrigation waters from this summer and fall eroded nice dark tunnels under the overhanging mats of grass. The 1st bird was also found a few times in the boulders just below where the irrigation channel begins after coming under a trail from Fountain Creek by the little falls. The boulders are covered in snowberry bushes. Walking in the channel is probably the only way to find the 1st bird. Bill Maynard Colorado Springs ____________________________________________________________ Stock Options Click to learn about options trading and get the latest information. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=C4enFER2BeSD7OlnWPjdrQAAJ1Bv0zKlSaNvi8hdiFTsCljYAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQlgAAAAA=
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