And so it continues... This morning at Greenlee Preserve, eastern Boulder County, I was surprised by a flyby of an *evening grosbeak,* only my second ever at the site. Meanwhile, the planted spruces at Angevine Middle School, eastern Boulder County, were overrun this morning by petulant *red-breasted nuthatches.*
Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County On Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 1:50:54 PM UTC-6, Ted Floyd wrote: > > Hey, everybody. Folks have been posting here about a late-summer movement > east of the mountains of *red-breasted nuthatches,* and we've been > noticing it here in the Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, area, too. Go > outside for half an hour, and you'll more likely than not hear one of the > little buggers *yank...yank...yank*'ing away. > > And it's not just red-breasted nuthatches. > > Friday morning, Sept. 8, I was surprised by a *Williamson's sapsucker* > along Boulder Creek near 75th Street; yesterday morning, Sat., Sept. 9, a > *pygmy > nuthatch* was jabbering away from a shade tree at one of the residences > just west of Greenlee Preserve; and this Sunday morning, Sept. 10, near the > Centennial Trail, one or two *brown creepers* were going at it in the > planted spruces at the terminus of Old Tale Road. > > (The pygmy nuthatch was bird species #240 for me at the Waneka/Greenlee > complex.) > > 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/74f5e46d-6684-4158-baa8-3a72b17cb4ad%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
