Re: [cobirds] Lesser Goldfinches - Pueblo

[David Suddjian]

Just to chime on my Lesser Goldfinch situation at Ken Caryl Valley,
JeffCo...

After an early winter peak in numbers and presence, and a post-New Years
lull, LEGOs have increased in frequency at Ken Caryl Valley this month, but
are generally noted in small numbers of 1-4 at a time. Lately I've most
often seen them hanging together in apparent pairs (duller female and
brighter male but not alternate plumage), and there is more song happening
among their vocal ramblings than earlier this winter. The males I am seeing
have just flecks of black on the crown. I'm hearing lots of interesting
imitations in the songs, but you have to listen closely as they whiz by in
the long, drawn out songs being given now. From one male in my yard this
morning I thought I discerned imitations of Nor. Flicker, Blue Jay,
Black-billed Magpie, Am. Robin, White-breasted Nuthatch, Song Sparrow and
what seemed like a Killdeer call (!)

David Suddjian
Ken Caryl Valley
Littleton, CO

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Leon Bright  wrote:

> COBirders--  After not seeing any LEGOs in my back yard for months, two
> appeared briefly this afternoon.  The pair had started molting into fresh
> alternate plumage, in contrast to the dull American Goldfinches that are
> here in good numbers.
>
> Leon Bright, Pueblo (City/County)
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[cobirds] Lesser Goldfinches - Pueblo

[Leon Bright]

COBirders--  After not seeing any LEGOs in my back yard for months, two
appeared briefly this afternoon.  The pair had started molting into fresh
alternate plumage, in contrast to the dull American Goldfinches that are
here in good numbers.

Leon Bright, Pueblo (City/County)

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Re: [cobirds] Lesser Goldfinches - Pueblo (City/County)

[Gloria Nikolai]

Leon,


I live in Colorado Springs and have Lesser Goldfinch nearly all year and they 
are consistently black-backed. Variety in the bird world is the spice of life 
[]


Gloria Nikolai

El Paso County



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Subject: [cobirds] Lesser Goldfinches - Pueblo (City/County)


COBirders--  Yesterday afternoon a pair (M + F) of Lesser Goldfinches appeared 
briefly in my back yard.  They were of the black-backed form which makes them 
most likely from Texas and much rarer here than other wanderers from that state 
that allegedly drive Suburbans.  [Clarification for our novice birders:  Most 
Lesser Goldfinches in Colorado—and almost all west of our state—have a greenish 
back.  See Sibley, The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd ed. p. 579.  During the last 
several decades the ratio of green-backs to black-backs that I have seen here 
has been roughly 20 – 1.]

Leon Bright. Pueblo



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