Hello, Birders. Marcel Such and Joel Such and I had a nice amble (hah!--it was a mountain marathon) around the Mesa Trail complex of southeastern Boulder County early yesterday morning, Sunday, June 12th. Here are some highlights: Owls and nightjars. Several Northern Pygmy-Owls and Northern Saw-whet Owls; one of the latter went totally berserk. Lotsa Common Poorwills, but we heard just one Common Nighthawk. Yellow-billed Cuckoo? I thought I heard one, well before sunrise, down in (or flying over?) the floodplain forest downstream from the main parking area. But it was distant, and I couldn't get Marcel and Joel on the bird, and ya gotta worry about those pesky Yellow-breasted Chats... Grasshopper Sparrows. Two singing in a little patch of prairie near where the Mesa and Big Bluestem trails come together. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. A nice after-second-calendar-year male singing from a ponderosa pine near the beginning of the Towhee Trail. Red Crossbill. several flyovers by Type 2s. And all the usual stuff: Dusky and Cordilleran (lots) and Hammond's (one) flycatchers; Plumbeous Vireos; all three nuthatches; Canyon Wren; Gray Catbirds; a few Cedar Waxwings; Virginia's, Yellow, Audubon's, and MacGillivray's warblers; more than two dozen Yellow-breasted Chats; several Green-tailed Towhees and a great throng of Spotted Towhees; lots of Western Tanagers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, and Lazuli Buntings; and one or two Cassin's Finches. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Blog: http://tinyurl.com/4n6qswt Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2ejzlzv Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2wkvwxs -------------------------------
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