[cobirds] Report of RED-FACED WARBLER - Montezuma County

Dennis Garrison posted this at 2:36 pm today on West Slope Bird Network:

I was briefly in the lower Dolores area above Bradfield today.  There is a spot there where I have in the past seen Grace's warblers, and I stopped for a minute to look, and saw a red-faced warbler. 

Nothing else I can find in my books even comes close.  The markings were so distinct, size was right, actions were right. Had a good look for more than a minute with binocs at 50 feet as it foraged along the roadside in the bare oaks, at which point I dug for my camera, and looked up and it was gone. Spent almost an hour looking for it to no avail.

Hopefully someone else will see it. Location is about 1.5 miles below the dam. Single large ponderosa on the river side of the road, with a large culvert under the road and a straight ditch about 8 feet deep leading down to the river. There is also a big open field with the remains of a parking area to the south of that tree. Some pondos and a few doug firs with oak understory right there on the uphill side of the road.  Google maps gives me coordinates of 37.593794  -108.601795.

Please, someone find it and tell me I am not really crazy.

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Jason Beason

Paonia - Delta County

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