The LUCY'S WARBLER, first seen this cold, windy, sideways-snow-for-a-time
morning about 10:00am was seen by four other people (Cole Wild, Rachel Hopper,
Joe Mammoser, and Josh Bruening) in mid-afternoon.
There are four entrances into Eaton Cemetery off of CR39 (about 1/2 mile south
of CR74 se of Eaton).
The bird seemed to stay in the trees that fall between the middle two
entrances, from the west edge of the cemetery to about the cemetery center. If
you take the third entrance from the north into the cemetery, near the center
of the cemetery is a big trash barrel tied to a reddish post. Just ne of the
trash can intersection is a big Northern Hackberry sparsely leafed out. That
seems to be the tree the bird comes back to from time to time. When not in
that tree, it works all the way west to the edge, always seemingly staying
pretty high in deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out (mostly hackberries,
but also linden and honeylocust, maybe some Siberian elms). There are good
hackberries all around the above-mentioned "main" haunt. I would not ignore
those, including hackberries to the east and southeast. The thing is very
tiny, short-tailed, all whitish underneath, gray above. I never did see its
rusty rump but did see the small rusty patch on the crown a couple times. It
has a noticeable eyering.
Other birds that could be confused with the Lucy's also at the cemetery today
were at least two Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, at least three Orange-crowned
Warblers, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and a zillion Chipping Sparrows.
Other birds seen today (total of 37 species) were:
Nashville Warbler (seen in the hackberry mentioned as being the Lucy's
"favorite")
Yellow Warbler
Red-eyed Vireo (at various places, both in deciduous trees and junipers)
Swainson's Thrush
Chimney Swifts (at least 10)
Peregrine Falcon
Clay-colored Sparrows (several)
Brewer's Sparrows (few)
Common Poorwill (flushed by Rachel from near a headstone and later photographed
on the southernmost e-w cemetery road)
Empid (never could get a good handle on this bird but it appeared crested, very
green above, and might well have been an Alder (had a noticeable eyering but
not wide or overly tear-dropped, wash of yellow below, extension what I would
call moderate - just don't know on this one)
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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