Hello, Birders. Whilst Andrew was playing laser tag in Broomfield (huh?) early this Saturday afternoon, Nov. 8, Hannah and I had some time to kill, so we jaunted over to Stearns Lake, barely in Boulder County, where we found a *Winter Wren* immediately downstream from the bridge over Rock Creek. The bird was vocal, but Rock Creek much more so, so this audio from this afternoon is very noisy:
https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/winter-wren Still, you can hear the distinctive *chimp-chimp* given frequently throughout the cut. Winter Wrens are somewhat expected in Boulder County the second week of November. Less expected the second week of November are Allard's ground-crickets. Nevertheless, they were out and about. Here's a recording from Stearns today: https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/allards-ground-cricket Back to birds. We saw 76 *Great-tailed Grackles,* mainly males. In recent winters, although not so much the winter of 2013-2014, large numbers of Great-tailed Grackles have roosted at this site. Just east of the lake, i.e., right below the dam, we pished up a large flock of *Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows.* A few *American Tree Sparrows* and *Song Sparrows* were mixed in with the flock, but nothing of greater interest. Not sure of the legality of walking around in there; the gate is open. Looks excellent for Sedge Wren or Le Conte's Sparrow. Also looks good for a citation from Open Space... 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/b6de9f01-bb17-4759-998f-dba44809c6c5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
