Thomas, thanks for provoking a really interesting thread. Gives renewed
respectability to sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea gazing idly through a
window…
Location/habitat: urban, suburban, rural, etc?
We are in the Baca Grande, Crestone, Saguache County at 8000 ft in pure Pinyon
Ditto – I was thinking the same thing. While Cassin’s Finches are regular and,
in some past years, common (6-10) at our feeders in pinyon/juniper habitat in
Crestone, Saguache County, this morning I counted 32 individuals including only
one adult male, with the rest females or immatures – bodes
To supplement Norm Erthal’s email of yesterday below, I should apologize for my
own waffling on the Heron Pond Ibis. I saw this bird on Monday 25 April and
identified it (and posted it to ebird) as White-faced Ibis. For the reasons
Norm cites, I saw no reason to doubt the id.
On Tuesday, I
The Nelson’s Sparrow continued at 8:30 am this morning in same area at Pelican
Point.
John Cobb
Denver
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Bayard and I had a stunning male Hooded Warbler on Spanish Creek in Crestone
this morning. He paused long enough for me to get adequate photos. 8th
record for the valley (per John Rawinski) and only the 2nd I know of for
Saguache - although there may be more Hooded Warblers than birders currently
This afternoon, Bayard and I had a White-throated Sparrow at Russell Lakes in
the brush southwest along the parking lot.
After seeing one white-throat in 45 plus years in CO, we have seen two this
month (Westerly Creek, Denver).
Also of interest were 32 Great-tailed Grackles on a power line
This morning there was a immature Harris’s Sparrow in with a group of
White-crowns at Bluff Lake Nature Center in the brush near the entrance
porta-potties.
The wood duck count on the lake is down to four females from 14 about three
weeks ago.
John Cobb
Denver
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