Highlights of an afternoon visit today (4/4/11) to Grandview Cemetery at the west end of Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins (Larimer):
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (1 new (migrating?) individual juvenile, facial stripes thinner than one from a month ago, top of head with much red, throat white, very wary (you would be too if you had to suck enough sap to subsist along the fareway of a public course populated with rusty early spring golfers on a windy day), found in the 7th Austrian Pine (thin diameter with a double-trunk) east of the dark green porta potty just out on the golf course near the southwest corner of the cemetery). Franklin's Gull (FOY flock of about 25 milling about noisily overhead) Golden-crowned Kinglet (at least 1 of the overwintering duo still present, as per normal in the company of a Brown Creeper) Great Horned Owl (female sitting pretty high on the nest in the elm at the west end of Section H, babies still not viewable under her) Red-tailed Hawk (1 lt., 1 dark) Lesser Goldfinch (singing without gusto at the entrance) Total of 21 species Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- 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.
