Hello, Birders. I had an errand yesterday, *Wednesday, July 2,* at *Barr Lake, Adams County.* Convenient place for a birder to have an errand, eh?
The very first bird I saw was a *Cackling Goose.* Photo here: http://tinyurl.com/Cackling-Barr-Lake Cathy Sheeter tells me there have a few here this summer. To which I say: What's up with that? The only nuthatch I saw and heard was a good match for *Rocky Mountain Nuthatch.* And what, pray tell, is a Rocky Mountain Nuthatch? Well, Colorado's own peripatetic Steve Mlodinow has a handy primer in this month's *Birding* magazine, published by the American Birding Association, on how to separate the Carolina, Rocky Mountain, and Slender-billed nuthatches, two taxa of which occur regularly in Colorado. Here is a link to a PDF download of Steve's article: http://aba.org/birding/2014-MAY-JUN/14-3_08Mlodinow-R4.pdf All four of the vireos I saw and heard were good phenotypic matches for *Eastern Warbling-Vireo.* Here's audio of a Rocky Mountain Nuthatch with a descant from an Eastern Warbling-Vireo: https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/wbnu-ls101522 Barr Lake is a great venue for appreciating the East-meets-West aspect of Colorado birding. Complete eBird checklist here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18972990 Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- 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/4c64d379-f04b-404a-ac29-ed581b0e0483%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
