After Doug Kibbe and others left this morning, Mike Miller from Longmont and myself stayed to continue looking for the Worm-eating Warbler. I hoped that since I had spotted it yesterday around 11:30 am (MDT, correction from my report yesterday of 11am) that it might yet show itself and vocalize. At about 11:23 MDT (per time stamp on my photos-note today's time of 12:23 pm) we saw the bird on the north side of the trail where the sunlight filters through so we got much better looks than this morning or than I did yesterday. It had moved at least a hundred feet east of where we had seen it this morning (it was about 50 west of the driveway to the house not far from the MacKenzie Ave parking area for the Riverwalk). Mike and I watched it forage below us (as that side of the trail declines to meet an irrigation ditch) and CiCi Lee, who had arrived a little earlier and was back where we first saw the bird, came and saw it also. The bird even flew up to a branch in a large cottonwood tree at least 25 feet above the ground, totally different from yesterday's behavior, then probe into a crevice to look for larvae and worms that it eats. It then flew back across the trail and back westward, stopping for a short time in a tree above 15 feet above the ground giving us more views. It finally flew back west to the thicket that I first saw it in on the south side of the trail (about 200 feet west of the parking area).
I did get a better photo of the bird that I have uploaded to my Birds and Nature <http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com> blog. Since the light was better, I only cropped the photo to enlarge it but did no other editing--it looks like it looked to us. And it looks, at least on the upperparts that are seen in the photo, greener than what I saw yesterday--I suspect this is a function of the light conditions as well as the angle of viewing. I plan to go back down in the morning if anyone wants to try for the bird (just be aware of weather forecasts as another storm is on the way) I can show them where I have seen it. Note: the raptor I thought was a Northern Goshawk wasn't- SeEtta Moss Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com<http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/> Blogging for Birds and Blooms magazine @ Birds and Blooms blog southcentral/<http://birdsandbloomsblog.com/category/southcentral/> -- 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.
