Hello, Birders. Bob Zilly and I made a quick jaunt over to Teller Farms, Boulder County, early this morning, Wednesday, June 22nd. Our objective was to obtain sound records of a territorial Eastern Warbling-Vireo. We accomplished that objective, and, in the process, we found some other interesting birds, among them:
1. A singing Willow Flycatcher. (Back on Sunday, June 19th, folks on the Boulder Bird Club outing saw, but did not hear, a "Traill's" Flycatcher.) Willow Flycatcher has occurred here during the summer months at least in 2008, 2009, and now 2011. One question is whether these Teller Farms birds are of our expected Interior West Willow Flycatchers (subspecies adastus) or whether they're of the "eastern" (campestris=traillii) subspecies. Perhaps impossible to know, but interesting to speculate about. 2. A female Archilochus hummingbird hunting spiders and bringing them to a nest. Bob showed me the spot in which Mike Blatchley and others had a nesting Black-chinned Hummingbird a year or so ago; today's nest was about 750 feet from that spot. Re: female Archilochus. Probably Black-chinned, but who knows...especially in light of recent evidence from Oklahoma of extensive hybridization between Black-chinned and Ruby-throated hummingbirds. 3. An unseen singing American Redstart; presumably the same bird as on the Boulder Bird Club outing last Sunday. 4. Two fly-over Great Egrets and several Wood Ducks. ------------------------------- 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.
