Good morning Birders,
When I arrived at the Red Rocks Trading Post feeders this morning at
7:00 A.M., Art Hudak already spread seed and was watching the Rosy-
Finches. We estimated the flock of Rosy's to be about 75 birds with
the largest proportion Gray-crowned, some Hepburn's, 5-10 Brown-
capped, and maybe 5 Black Rosy-Finches. We were joined later by Rick
Taylor from Colorado Springs.
The flock of Rosy-Finches (from today as well as other earlier
observations) seems to prefer the rock wall, then the area under the
lower apple tree, and then the platform feeder in that order. A few
use the flat area under the apple tree, but I believe their first
preference is to fly down from the cliffs on the south directly to the
rock wall or to the tops of the trees, and then descend to the rock
wall or to the other feeding areas previously mentioned.
On the other hand, often the first place the Golden-crowned Sparrow
appears in the morning is the flat rock under the upper apple tree,
which is where he made his first appearance this morning around 7:40
A.M.
About 7:45 A.M., I departed and left Art & Rick enjoy the large
numbers of feeding birds.
1 Golden-crowned Sparrow
60 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, including 10-15 Hepburn's
10 Brown-capped Rosy-Finches
5 Black Rosy- Finches
4 Spotted Towhee
100 Dark-eyed Junco including Gray-crowned, Pink-sided, Slate, Oregon,
cassiar, White-winged, PS x WW cross
4 Song Sparrow
1 White-crowned Sparrow - 1st year bird
1 Black-billed Magpie
25 House Finch
1 Cassin's Finch previous occasions I have seen 3 male Cassin's at
once and two pairs(male & female) at once
3 Pine Siskins
2 American Goldfinch
20 House Sparrow
Mike Henwood
Morrison
Jefferson County
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