And now a *mountain chickadee* in the maple tree out front. (Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, Monday, Sept. 11.)
I'm half-expecting a ptarmigan to strut down South Fork Drive... ;-) Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 9:32:00 AM UTC-6, Ted Floyd wrote: > > 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/487fe1a9-44bc-4900-bb70-eb39a77d28a3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
