Greetings All
This morning Tracy Clark and I headed up Gregrory Canyon. The huge volume of people drove us back to the car fairly early. Around 8:15 am we heard a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER. We listened to it nearly continuously for 10 minutes. We saw it not and again, but it was evasive. In any case, it looked simply like a "Western Flycatcher." The call was the typical upslurred single noted TSweeEEt. Loudest at very beginning, and then at the inflect point mid-note. For a bird that sounded essentially identical to what we heard listen to http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/50339 (ignoring the songs towards the end of the cut). It called approximately every 5 seconds, excepting a couple breaks of 30 seconds or so. Going up from the parking area, a couple hundred yards up the trail there is another trail (Saddle something) that forks off to the left, crossing the stream on a wooden bridge. It was here that the bird was persistently calling. My cell phone was dead, so sorry for the late communication. I lived among PacSlope Flys for 20 years and have heard my share of Cordillerans. I have heard birds that sound intermediate. This bird sounded as if it was raised in my backyard just n. of Seattle. It was "classic." On a significant but lesser note, about 100 feet above the parking lot, around 6:30 in the morning, there was a female Archilocus (presumably BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD) hummingbird along the trail. Finally, a CASPIAN TERN was at Cottonwood Marsh at Walden Ponds this morning. Best Wishes Steven Mlodinow (and Tracy Clark) Longmont, 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.
