Hello Jared- There seem to be quite a few Harris' sparrows in the Denver area these days. I saw the one posted in eBird by James McCall at Ralston Creek (JeffCo) earlier this week, and today John Breitsch's DFO trip had one that crossed the Denver-Adams line as we watched. Are there more this year, or is it just me being woke? :)
Rebecca Laroche Denver, CO On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 3:45:10 PM UTC-7, Jared Del Rosso wrote: > > 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/11732960-85ce-46de-b7ed-c028b8c3cc29%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
