Still reeling from not going to Dixon this morning and seeing the American Redstart that Arvind found, I went to Cottonwood Glen/Spring Creek Trail in West Fort Collins at about 1:30 to see what warblers I might find (Yellow-Rumped). No luck with rare warblers, however, I did happen upon a Sedge Wren. The bird was in some tall, thick (sedge?) grasses right along the trail, in a marshy collection of water; the grasses transitioned into cattails away from the trail. The bird was calling single-note "chat" calls, and I saw it pop up long enough to fire off some photos. I stayed some 30 minutes, and it would continue to call occassionally (generally single notes), but it pretty much stayed down in the grasses. I was able to get one shot that was a bit blurry but through the grasses that shows the back reasonably well.
Link to all the photos (including very blurry ones) is here: https://picasaweb.google.com/105742165113837247842/SedgeWrenSpringCanyonPark24Oct2013?authuser=0&feat=directlink The location of this marshy collection area from the parking lot on the west side of the park: walk along the bike/walking trail, past the first bridge (where the trail turns north), and the marshy section is then some 25-30 yards and on the west side of the trail. The grasses were just some 10 feet off the trail, and the bird was occassionally just 10-15 feet from me (though down in the grass). Brad Biggerstaff Fort Collins -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAEsD7e5pgqvPU12hfvZLd1OuOdjbAFCdDj4b2haacvysqFxdHQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
