Ted, you were asking what was up with the cackling geese hanging out here for the summer.
I have up to 800 geese on the townhouse property where I live near Littleton in the winter time, many of them being the lesser forms. By migration time, March or so, all of those geese leave with just the 50 Resident Giesting. For the first time in the 11 years that I've been here, a pair of lesser Canada geese and a greater white fronted goose stayed here. I was surprised by that. They didn't have any offspring, but did seem to be accepted by the other geese. Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 3, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Ted Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/F79C516B-539D-40B4-9ED7-F1ABEDDD6875%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
