Hello, I arrived at Red Rocks around 11:30... Dick, I think that you may
have been one there when I arrived, but you left for lunch.
All had left except me and another girl on the balcony or the trading. It
was shortly after everyone left that the rosy-finches returned; around
12:15pm. I believe the flock to be about 1/2 the size of the 75-100 that
you mention. There were the black rosy-finch and gray-crowned rosy-finch
in the flock... and also, I think, a Hepburn's subspecies of the
gray-crowned rosy-finch. The girl and I were sorry you just missed them.
The flock flew from the feeding area to the rock ledges to the left. They
were flying back and forth for quite a while.
Maureen Blackford
Nederland, CO
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From: "Dick Schottler" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:22 PM
To: "COBIRDS" <[email protected]>
Subject: [cobirds] Red Rocks Rosy-finches, Jan. 5
I arrived at Red Rocks trading post at 1015 this morning (1/5) to find I
had just missed a flock of Rosy-finches by minutes. Ed Holub told me a
flock of 75-100 Rosies had been there just a few minutes earlier, but did
not stay long. I stayed around until noon, but they never returned in that
time. The thrasher and three Zonotrichia sparrows all made appearances
while I was there.
Dick Schottler
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