Yesterday e saw a warbler that puzzled us in the Endovalley picnic area at Rocky Mt NP. Distinctive features included grey wings with white bars, bright yellow breast and throat fading to a duller color on the back and tail, and bright yellow head with a definite black eye stripe. It was flitting around and feeding on some kind of insect it was finding in an aspen tree. The song was similar to the 'swee swee' notes of a Virginia's or MacGillivray's but shorter- usually 5 repeated notes and no fading or fiddly ending. We have scoured the books trying to identify it - it looked a lot like the Blue-Winged Warbler but didn't sound like the recordings of that bird (and would be wildly off course ). The other warblers that make sense for the park seem to have much more grey and black than this one; the yellow was quite bold. Suggestions?
While in the park we also enjoyed the Ring-Necked Ducks on Lily Lake and the Clark's Nutcrackers at Rainbow Curve on Trail Ridge Road. My Australian friend was quite delighted with the Stellers Jays. - Sandra Laursen Boulder -- 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/03342805-a038-4ae3-af23-bc5845072981%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
