Hello, Birders. I was at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, during nautical dawn this morning, Sunday, October 31st. A neat sound was the distant "hink" calls of an unseen flock of Cackling Geese coming in from the north. They passed straight over, too high to see in the still-dark sky. Hard to say how many were up there--perhaps a few dozen, maybe more. I also heard four flight calls that I believe were those of American Tree Sparrows--high, short, level, piercing, and bell-like.
Then there was that eerie period of silence that I associate with dawn in late fall and early winter--after the night birds have quieted down, but before the "dawn chorus," such as it is, starts up. The first bird of the new day was an American Robin, then an American Kestrel, then a Brown Creeper, then a Blue Jay gliding silently by. It's a neat time of the year, for sure. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Blog: http://tinyurl.com/2g2staq Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2wj9djj Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2wkvwxs ------------------------------- -- 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.
