[cobirds] Changing of the (Avian) Guard, Aug. 22nd

Hello, Birders.


It's that time of year...


Location: Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County. Date: Wed., Aug. 22nd.


At 4:23 a.m. a Chipping Sparrow--symbolic of the great mid-summer nocturnal molt-migration across Colorado--flew over. We'll still be hearing them (increasingly, presumed juveniles) for more than a month, I thought to myself. But it's time for some new players.


Sure enough, at 4:26 a.m. I heard the first Wilson's Warbler of the fall. The Wilson's Warbler, with its weird, abrupt, smacking flight call, is for me the symbol of "normal" fall migration of the sort that I think more of us are accustomed to.


In with the new, out with the old!


Ted Floyd

tedfloyd57@hotmail.com

Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado

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