They're hee-eere...
Yes, we've known for about a year now about the phalanx of Great-tailed Grackles staging in extreme southeastern Boulder County--basically, at Stearns Lake and thereabouts. Yesterday, Sunday, Three Kings Day, January 6th, however, the grackles majorly escalated their campaign in Boulder County. At 4 pm, while watching gulls streaming over Greenlee Preserve en route to Valmont Reservoir, Andrew I were amazed and mildly horrified to see hundreds of grackles in the great larine throng. We estimated at least 375 flying northwest over the preserve, heading straight in the direction of the Rez, it seemed. And I'm not sure that we caught the beginning of the flock; we may have come in midway through.
Next thing you know, they'll be on the Pearl Street Mall, ogling at and harassing the well-heeled tourists at the upscale boutiques. Is nothing sacred?
Something else. Here is an awesome birding video about the just-announced ABA 2013 Bird of the Year:
http://blog.aba.org/2013/01/presenting-the-2013-aba-bird-of-the-year.html
If this video hasn't already gone viral, it will be very soon. Be sure to view it NOW, before the site crashes... :-)
And, oh yes, the 2013 Bird of the Year is very much a Colorado bird, and one whose distribution, taxonomy, and general coolness in Colorado are at a premium. Do check it out. You'll never watch this bird again quite the same . . .
Ted Floyd
tedfloyd57@hotmail.com
Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado
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