Just as a curiosity, I live in Englewood near Broadway and Dartmouth. I had a scrub jay show up in my yard Saturday, a first as well. It stayed around through Sunday morning. Maybe he next went south?
Crystal Wilson Englewood, CO On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 7:00:49 PM UTC-6, Jared Del Rosso wrote: > Some fun, though not especially unexpected, encounters around west > Arapahoe over the past few days... > > *September 2 @ Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve* > > Very birdy, though nothing uncommon. Had my high counts of Blue-winged > Teal (16), Western Tanagers (5 or so), and Red-breasted Nuthatches (6 or > so) at the preserve. I'm a bit late to the discussion of Arapahoe County > Red-breasted Nuthatches, but there seemed to be one (or more) per cluster > of conifers this weekend. After getting the six at Marjorie Perry Nature > Preserve, I heard another calling in the parking lot of a nearby King > Sooper's. And there have been several of these birds around my neighborhood > (across University from deKoevend Park) lately. > > *September 3* > > While my wife and I walked our dog on Sunday evening in our neighborhood, > a Great Horned Owl flew over us, perching atop one of the giant > transmission towers that run east-west through western Centennial > (bisecting University just north of Arapahoe). The towers are visible from > my yard. You'd think they'd prove an eyesore, but they're perches for > Red-tails & Cooper's Hawks, Merlins, ravens, and now Great Horns. (Kestrels > & Swainson's Hawks seem to favor the wires running between the towers and > not the towers themselves.) > > *September 4 & 5* > > While collecting flower seeds in my front yard, I heard a loud & > continuous squawking coming from my backyard. I suspected another wayward > magpie; these birds & their repertoires of noise often fool me. But I found > instead a scrub jay, my first in my yard. The bird visited my platform > feeder on and off yesterday and today. > > Also on the fourth, three Swainson's Hawks soared over my neighborhood, > calling madly. One eventually perched in a neighbor's tree and continued to > call. They've been doing this a lot lately, and I regularly see one of them > -- a juvenile -- perched in the same conifer in the neighborhood. > > That's it. The Chipping Sparrow numbers in my yard are down -- from a > dozen or more last week, with a Clay-colored in tow, to two or three this > weekend. The lone Broad-tailed Hummingbird visiting my feeders may also > have left. > > - Jared Del Rosso > Centennial, 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/9380b31c-4516-4209-8a15-c8e4cb5600bd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
