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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. 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.
