Hello, Birders. Looks like Kei, Hannah, Andrew, and I picked the wrong day to be away from Glorious Boulder. Oh, well. At least, the birding was decent out east.
The highlight at the Fox Ranch (private), Yuma County, earlier today, Sunday, May 29th, was a close-up and cooperative GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. The bird just stayed in the same small tree for 10 minutes, occasionally moving from perch to perch. Other goodies for us at the Fox Ranch included INDIGO BUNTING, DICKCISSEL, EASTERN PHOEBE, and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. We also saw 10 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS, 19 ORCHARD ORIOLES, 1 EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, 4 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES, and, interestingly, 3 still-lekking GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS. (Why do people do chicken tours in miserable March? In the past 2 weeks this month of MAY, I've seen most of Colorado's grouse species, several of them on leks.) Cope Memorial Park, Washington County, had a fidgety, close-up, singing BELL'S VIREO. Also WILLOW FLYCATCHER and CHIMNEY SWIFTS. And Last Chance, Washington County, held a female MAGNOLIA WARBLER, probably second-calendar year. Also a PLUMBEOUS VIREO. The day before, Saturday, May 28th, on the drive out we saw a third-calendar-year male AMERICAN REDSTART. (Earlier on Saturday, Mark Peterson had found both Magnolia Warbler and American Redstart, so I suspect we saw the same birds he did.) At Last Chance, we also spotted Joe Roller, a regular transient on spring and fall migration to this site. By the way, the north port-a-potty had a copy of "Lepidoptera of Pennsylvania" and a half-eaten bag of orange slices. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Blog: http://tinyurl.com/4n6qswt Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2ejzlzv 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.
