COBirders, After visiting family in Florence I made a couple of quick stops around Florence. There were still some WHITE-THROATED SWIFTs flying over town and many YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERs and CHIPPING SPARROWs (probably about 75 of each). At Florence River Park there were many Yellow-rumps as well but I could not find anything different with them, probably missed something. In a flock of Junco's there were two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWs. I also had a lone COMMON NIGHTHAWK flying around the River Park and later when I went back by on my way home it was flying around the waste water treatment plant.
At Holcim Wetlands there were lots of sparrows but no luck finding Rich Miller's Fox Sparrow from last week. Certainly not saying it isn't still around, as there are plenty of places for it to hide. Two BARN SWALLOWs came in for a drink and then disappeared only to show up about 45 minutes later to do the same thing over again. There were two HOODED MERGANSERs on the lake as well. As I was walking out on the south side I noticed three blackbirds in a tree in the marsh. They turned out to be RUSTY BLACKBIRDs, this was around 6 PM. Just as a note, as I turned to walkaway there were three BREWER'S BLACKBIRDs high in a cottonwood. So if you happen to go look for these birds and find three Brewer's instead, I did really have Rusty's as well (I did get photo's). I also may have had a Rusty Blackbird along county road 119 in Florence but the lighting was so poor that I just could not confirm it for sure. I did get some photos, so hopefully I can mess with them enough to figure it out. ----- Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
