Today, while photographing plants on the grounds of what remains of CSU's Plant
Environmental Research Center (PERC) plantings - it is just west of the
monstrous, new football stadium building site in the sw corner of the main Fort
Collins campus - I had a Gray Catbird. It's late on the calendar for this
unhardiest (is that a word?) of our common mimic thrushes, but maybe not
considering the mild weather we've had so far this autumn. This would be a
good bird to keep track of in hopes it sticks around until the Fort Collins
Christmas Bird Count about 6 weeks from now. The location: in the extreme nw
part of the PERC grounds is a large, pale building with lots of black planting
tubs stacked by its se corner. Attached to the south side of this building is
a dark green cement block shed. South of these structures is a 150-foot long
hedge row oriented north-south. The bird was at the south end of the hedgerow
near the cluster of buckeye/horsechestnut trees. Just west of this part of
PERC is a large, multistoried new dorm.
As further demonstration of how creatures are hanging on to summer, also today
a tattered but active Common Buckeye (butterfly) was soaking up sun here and
there on the paths in the northwest corner of Fort Collins' Gardens on Spring
Creek, about a mile south of PERC on the west side of Centre Avenue south of
Prospect.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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