One last update... I think this bird arrived yesterday (10/1), as I briefly saw an unidentified, but large & interesting sparrow in my yard (in west Centennial, nearish deKoevend Park [Arapahoe]) yesterday, late afternoon, a bit before dusk.
If this bird hangs around through the week, I'll try to figure out a way for birders to visit with it. Finally, as I left to walk my dog this morning, I heard and then saw a Pygmy Nuthatch in a neighbor's tree. But whatever birds were around when I left the house seemed gone when I got back, perhaps owing to one of the neighborhood cats, which we saw a few doors down on our walk. - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, CO On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 7:44:27 AM UTC-6, Jared Del Rosso wrote: > > This morning (10/2), I spotted a large sparrow foraging in my yard. Seen > through binoculars, themselves seeing through the kitchen window, I saw a > mostly gray-faced sparrow with a black lid to that face and a yellowish > spot atop it all. Though stupefied, this bird came to mind. > > I went outside to put down seed and look for this bird. My dog insisting > on joining me, and then insisted on crashing through the brush to chase > squirrels away from the feed. So there was no chance the sparrow would > visit the seed with us out there. I did see it, though, in a tree at the > border of my neighbor's yard and mine. It seems to be loosely associating > with a Spotted Towhee. The second view, though brief, affirmed the first. > The bird called a few times, too. Though I'm tone deaf and unable to > describe any qualities to sounds, it seems to me to be the right call for > this bird. > > I hope it returns to the seed, and I hope to get a photo. But I reserve > the right to be wrong on all of this. > > - 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/a789a502-3457-4736-b759-f94b956cddcc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
