Hello, everybody. Looks like dickcissel reports are starting to pick up in the Front Range metro region. Yesterday afternoon, Monday, Aphelion Day, July 4, 2016, Frank Izaguirre and Adrienne Izaguirre and I heard a *dickcissel* flying over Ish Reservoir at the Boulder-Larimer County divide. But we were standing in Boulder County at the time of detection. So it counts! At Ish we also saw two gorgeous six-lined racerunners,* Aspidoscelis sexlineata*. And some small men in large trucks, but I digress . . .
Over at nearby Union Reservoir, Weld County (small men...large trucks...), there was a spiffy *Caspian tern.* It probably had been at Jim Hamm Nature Area, Boulder County. Speaking of which, Jim Hamm had a surprising *hooded merganser* and a duck with *Mexican duck genes.* Down at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, this Tuesday morning, July 5, I heard my first *blue grosbeak* for the site this year. Curious that singing males of this species never materialize at the preserve until around or sometime after Aphelion Day. Also saw a *great egret* this morning at nearby Waneka Lake. Other birds in the past few days at the Waneka/Greenlee complex: *blue-winged teal, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, American white pelican, Osprey, Swainson hawk, African collared-dove, common nighthawk, chimney swift, broad-tailed hummingbird,* woodpeckers with *yellow-shafted flicker genes, Say phoebe, bushtit, cedar waxwing,* and *spotted towhee.* Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County -- 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/ab5d6fe3-6306-4bad-b93a-eafcd6fe339e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
