Cobirders, I have now looked for the wren at the west end of Sawhill Ponds 4 times, and I'm yet to see or hear it. Also, I can hear nothing on the posted calls of the bird: probably too old. So, all I can go on are the photographs. In my opinion, Rachel's very good photos show a fairly standard plumage of Winter Wren, in agreement with Steve post yesterday.
For a picture of a Pacific Wren, see the excellent article by Leukering and Pieplow, which was published in the CFO Journal in 2010: http://cfobirds.org/downloads/In%20the%20Scope/016%20In%20the%20Scope%20Oct%202010.pdf For even better photos, go the the CFO Records Committee web site: http://www.coloradobirdrecords.org/ If you don't have a user name, come up with one and a password. Once inside the site, click on 'Reports from the Data' and 'Create your own Query'. Scroll down the species and click on 'Pacific Wren', change the starting date year to 2012, and click on 'Get selected records'. Finally, click on the camera for the October 12 record from Pueblo, and up will pop five great photos of this bird taken by Brandon Percival. Unfortunately, this bird could not be found the next morning by a group of us searching for it. This new website was activated a few months ago, and is an excellent mine of information on Colorado birds. Doug Faulkner, Rachel Hopper and others did a great deal of work to get this website active, and its development was funded by the CFO. Cheers, Peter Gent. -- 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/eac4f2c9dca3be6849226d450f678ee6.squirrel%40webmail.cgd.ucar.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
