I got a call from my handyman's wife, Janet, today announcing that they
had a white eyed vireo in their yard! That was quite the surprise to me since
they're not birders and I didn't think she would have any idea what a vireo
was. As it turns out, she said that a "couple of birders came through excitedly
looking for", and finding, this bird.
I went this evening and thought I saw the bird, listened to it and
followed it around the general area there at Drycreek but never got a really
good look at it. She says it tends to show up around three or four in the
afternoon and in the early morning.
Janet was very happy to be a part of this and enjoyed meeting the
people that came through.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
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> On Jun 3, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Joe Roller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A big thank you to Mary O'Connor who discovered a singing male White-eyed
> Vireo at 7 AM
> in a thicket near Big Dry Creek Trail.
> I visited the spot around 3 PM, and after 30 tense minutes, it began singing
> spontaneously, repeating the same phrase, "CHICK, a-bit-a WEIRRRD, CHICK,"
> familiar to me from boyhood birding in Missouri. Then it would go silent for
> up to 10 minutes.
>
> I finally saw it as it fed in a big chokecherry in the big hillside thicket.
>
> Directions are a bit different from the eBird directions from this morning.
>
> From I-25, exit west on E. Dry Creek Road and drive west past S Quebec, past
> the Willow Creek crossing, and past S Holly Street. Soon after Holly, in a
> valley, E. Dry Creek, the Road, crosses Dry Creek, the Creek. Park on a
> nearby neighborhood street (S. Jackson St is a bit closer to where you want
> to be than S. Adams St).
> Find Big Dry Creek Trail on the east side of Dry Creek the Creek and walk
> south. In about 1/4 mile you will pass a big green trash container, and pass
> a wooden marker that says "1.75 miles" and then cross the first of two
> bridges. The Vireo was singing right at the first bridge and later from the
> huge thicket uphill to your right.
> To view that thicket from above, find a dirt footpath half way between the
> two bridges, which leads uphill to the right (west). The neighbors are
> welcoming and that path is on public land. Walk up to where the path squeezes
> between a wooden fence and a thicket. Find the red bird feeder. If you get to
> a gray metal electric box or the undeveloped hillside, you have gone a bit
> too far. Look and listen from near the feeder.
>
> Good luck and please report to CObirds if you find it.
>
> Joe Roller,
> Denver
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