Returned to Denver this week after spending the holidays in North Idaho and was pleasantly surprised that the adult WHITE-THROATED SPARROW which was present throughout November and early December is still around today (Fri., 21 Jan.’22) at our place in southwest Denver (Athmar Park neighborhood, Denver Co.). We headed north in mid-December, so after six (6) weeks of empty feeders wasn’t expecting it to be around, and it took a couple of days for activity to pick up, but seems like we are now back to normal - again, a very nice surprise. This is a similar experience to the one we had last Winter with a young Harris’s Sparrow, and as such suspect the White-throat will stick around through March/April (hope I didn’t just jinks things), so if you’d like to try for the sparrow for your year list, …, just let me know separately.
Happy New Year,
Doug
Denver
21 January 2022 Athmar Yard near Huston Park (~1½ blocks away), Denver, Denver Co., CO
Canada Goose – 25 (all Gtr)
Rock Pigeon – 15
Eurasian Collared-Dove – 4
Ring-billed Gull – 3 ad
Northern Flicker – 5 “Red-shafted”
Blue Jay – 2
American Crow – 10
Black-capped Chickadee – 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch – 3
House Sparrow - 5
House Finch – 10
Dark-eyed Junco – 1 “Slate-colored”
- 2 “Oregon”
- 2 “Pink-sided”
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW – 1ad
Spotted Towhee – 1m 1f
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