Just a heads-up for Fort Collins CBC participants that I had a Yellow-rumped
Warbler in my apartment courtyard yesterday. I live about a mile east of CSU.
The bird was eating juniper berries.
Today I walked from the intersection of Sharp Point Drive south thru Prospect
Ponds NA south to the Northern CO Environmental Learning Center, crossed the
Poudre River and looped back around to my starting point by going thru the
Running Deer and Cottonwood Hollow NAs.
Highlights of this long walk were:
*Ruby-crowned Kinglet on the east side of the middle pond of the three included
within Prospect Ponds NA
*Wood Duck (male) in "Muskrat Pond" (which is between Prospect Ponds NA and
Cottonwood Hollow NA, posted "no access" for a reason that has always eluded me)
*Brewer's Blackbirds (maybe 10 or so) near the feed lot at the north end of
Sharp Point Drive
*Greater White-fronted Goose (1) in a flock of maybe 4000 white-cheeked geese
roosting in the former "Artist's Point Pond" (now drained) at Cottonwood Hollow
NA
*Hybrid goose, what I am calling a Canada X Snow within the Cottonwood Hollow
flock of white-cheeks
*Northern Pintail (3) at Cottonwood Hollow
*possible Swamp Sparrow (seen poorly, struck me as too unstreaked and too
red-winged to be Song, but possibly WAS a Song, not heard, three other Songs
nearby) in the little overgrown wetland north of the Water Treatment Plant
*possible rail utterance (just a fragment of a call) from extensive stagnant
cattail marsh in Running Deer (Virginia?)
Total of 32 species + the possible Swamp Sparrow + the hybrid goose.
Lowlights:
no Winter Wren
no for sure Swamp Sparrows
no Eastern Screech-Owl
no Rusty Blackbirds
no Northern Shrike
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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