Hello everyone,
Some interesting sightings today. While out doing grassland bird surveys in the Big Bluestem area in south Boulder, co-worker Jessie Dulberger spotted an adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER foraging along one of the fence lines. This bird aught to be re-findable. Park at the Southe Boulder Creek/Big Bluestem parking area on the west side of Broadway about 1/2 mi north of the Marshall Rd/Eldorado Springs Dr intersection. Walk down the dirt lane (not the S. Boulder Crk Trl) past the houses to the open space gate and go through it. You'll soon pass through another gate and then you'll get to an old corral. Stand at the coral and scan along the fence line going south. The bird was a couple hundred yards south. Please respect the locally breeding Grasshopper Sparrows, Vesper Sparrows and Western Meadowlarks by staying ON the trail. There's no excuse to go traipsing through this sensitive habitat when the bird is perfectly visible (bring a scope if you want) from the trail with a little patience. A little icing on the cake when we returned to the City of Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks office at 66 S. Cherryvale Rd was a constantly singing adult male NORTHERN PARULA. He's (still) spending his time in the two large cottonwoods behind the buildings near the horse area with the white fence. He's singing both song types- a fast, chippy, rising trill and the rising zee-zee-zee-zee-zee! There is visitor parking on the front side of the office buildlings. I don't think anyone would mind people walking back between the two office buildings to where the bird is. There's consistantly a single Bobolink along the driveway coming in off Cherryvale. Parula, Kentucky Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Red-headed Woodpecker, tornadoes and humidity...feels like I'm in Georgia. Christian Nunes pajaro...@hotmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/christian_nunes/ _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
