I enjoyed the beautiful mild weather today by taking a bike ride up to Ward. To my surprise a flock of 100-150 rosy-finches was circling and landing in some tall spruce trees as I arrived in lower Ward at 1:30. They departed quickly, before I had the chance to identify individual species. After searching the upper portion of town for feeders and any bird activity, and not finding much at all, I returned around 2:30 and found a smaller flock of about 50 rosy-finches in the same trees. There were both Gray-crowned (including Hepburn’s) and Brown-capped, but no Black that I could find.
Local Boulder sightings since the new year: 1/1 8 Western Bluebirds (west side of Wonderland Lake) 1 Lincoln’s Sparrow (east side of Wonderland Lake) The lake is approximately 90% frozen, but still hosting many Redheads, Am Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Canada and Cackling geese, and very few other species (1 Am Coot, and on 1/1 one female goldeneye). 1/3 1 Merlin, Dakota Ridge 1/5 2 Woodhouse’s Scrub Jays, Lee Hill Rd just west of 5th St Multiple visits of up to 5 Lesser Goldfinches at my feeders in N Boulder. Good birding, Thomas Heinrich Boulder, CO [email protected] -- 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/D6E45098-CD32-4C70-93E5-BD144BE52D64%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
