NB: John B's trip was at First Creek. RL Denver On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 4:52:03 PM UTC-7, Rebecca L Laroche wrote: > > 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 >>> >>
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