Upon further consideration, I believe I encountered only 2 *Dickcissels* this morning at Chatfield SP. There may have been 3, but they were moving around a fair bit, and I could only confirm two singing at the same time about 0.2 mile apart. An *Eastern Phoebe* continued at Kingfisher Bridge. *Red-eyed Vireos* were just upstream of Kingfisher (2) and at the lake margin near the Dickcissel area (1). A singing male *Western Tanager* in the grove of pines near the horse stable area was of interest to me; a post-breeding dispersant? A singing *Blue Grosbeak* was a prominent feature on the road toward the horse stables.
Waterton Canyon was open this morning. I wanted to see if either phoebe species was in the spot they occupied last year, but I could not find any. But the walk was very birdy. A hybrid *Lazuli x Indigo* was just about 100 yards past the Mule Deer picnic spot, with 9 regular *Lazulis*. Some of the other birds here included a female *Am. Redstart*, 1 *Least Flycatcher*, 1 *Band-tailed Pigeon* (flew up canyon), 1 Y*ellow-billed Cuckoo *(silent, somewhat distant view), 13 *Yellow-breasted Chats*, and 1 *Am. Dipper*. iPhone Recordings of the hybrid bunting song and some regular Lazuli songs are on this checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/email?subID=S30534336 On July 2 and 3 I covered many (but not all) of the areas in Ken Caryl Ranch that have *Ovenbird* habitat. On 7/2 I detected 10 Ovenbirds in the Massey Draw watershed, including 9 singing and 1 carrying food. On 7/3 I detected 5 more in the Lost Creek area of the Massey watershed and 6 in the Dutch Creek watershed. Birds on 7/3 included 10 singers and 1 carrying food. So that totals to 21 Ovenbirds detected on those two days, and based on the prior two years there are likely some other spots where they are on the Ranch that I did not visit on these two days. David Suddjian Littleton, CO -- 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/CAGj6RopT%2BzmSHJ3nGdvhdonA%3DkgUtKLJZF%2BXW8c9GWtwVAS4Ng%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
