Correction -- today's walk with my dog and the Harris's Sparrow was indeed today, December 8. Cynthia, Dave, and I first found the bird on Sunday, December 3. I mixed up dates in the post.
Apologies for the confusion! - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, CO On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 3:42:14 PM UTC-7, Jared Del Rosso wrote: > > This afternoon (12/3), I took a brief walk with my dog through Chapel > Hill Memorial Gardens (Arapahoe). This was our third one at the cemetery > this week. Each time, we hugged the hedgerow along the cemetery's western > edge hoping to relocate the Harris's Sparrow that Cynthia Madsen, Dave > Hill, and I found on Sunday. The previous two walks yielded nothing, > leading me to think the bird had gone. But this afternoon, some halfhearted > pishing brought out a chickadee, then some House Finches, then juncos, then > the Harris's Sparrow. I got some bad, but definitive, views of the bird. I > figured if halfhearted pishing got me bad views, a wholehearted effort > would get me a photo. Instead, every bird fled. I refound them all but the > Harris's, which seems to have a fondness for sticking deep in the hedges or > perhaps even on the other side of them, as both of my encounters with it > have been brief. > > - 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/0d820feb-4284-436e-a1df-0ec30152789e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
