Hugh, The Painted Lady irruption you mention is incredible right now. I ran around Quincy Reservoir this morning, and I saw - no exaggeration - thousands. There is quite a bit of Rabbitbrush around the reservoir, and some bushes were just covered in them, turning them solid orange rather than yellow from a distance. I ran through clouds of butterflies. I've never seen anything like it.
The Red-breasted Nuthatches continue at Quincy Reservoir as well. Two or three visit my feeders in the mornings, and I heard several other ones throughout the neighborhood. The Woodhouse's Scrub-jays are back here regularly too, along with the families of Blue Jays that have been hanging around all summer. Bart Deferme On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:50 PM, 'Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds < [email protected]> wrote: > This morning Urling & I saw at least 40 (forty) Painted Lady butterflies, > gorging on our bright blooming rabbit brush. I have never seen such a > stunning butterfly show. > > We also have some fall bird visitors: 5 Steller's Jays (occasional during > the summer), a Red-breasted Nuthatch (a September arrival), 2 Vesper > Sparrows. Our winter Blue Jays arrived in July (early). > > A Black-capped Chickadee banded in our yard in June we see off and on, > about once a week; we have to examine all the chickadees that come in > (daily) to pick out its red leg band. > > Two species have entertained us with fall-echo singing. We still hear a > Western Meadowlark singing, and up until two days ago heard a Plumbeous > Vireo singing. House Finches, of course continue their song mastery. > > Hugh Kingery > Franktown, 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/15e972f9a4e-c0e-12b94%40webjas-vad219.srv.aolmail.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/15e972f9a4e-c0e-12b94%40webjas-vad219.srv.aolmail.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CADxWATBv2hq0Qh2ij69WZ60M%2BrJXpWdDmqR%3D79mKh1DtqRO%2B7Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
