Today's new feeder visitor: an Indigo Bunting. He had the vivid dark blue plumage of typical Indigos, but he had blackish primaries edged with brownish-buff. Sibley's field guide does not show this, Natl Geographic does, and other guides show slight variations. While parsing his primaries, we wondered if he had a bit of Lazuli Bunting in him, though we thought, probably not.
But the amazing thing today, came on a walk along the Walker Trail. Our dog, Lark, tried to get under the barbed wire fence (restrained fortunately by her leash). Atracting her attention, and then ours: mating Bullsnakes! We watched these two for 20 minutes. The (presumably) male had his jaw locked on the back of the (presumably) female's head. He flexed his upper body almost rhythmically 30-60 seconds, then the tails thrashed; then they rested, then resumed the dance. For 20 minutes. We lacked the patience to stand there any longer, unfortunately. By the time we returned they had disappeared. Hugh Kingery Franktown, CO -- 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.
