I birded Florence River Park a little yesterday and a lot today--yesterday there was an immature Eastern Phoebe, about a dozen Yellow-rumped Warblers, 1 Orange-crowned and 4-5 Wilson's. Today it was bird-central---several dozen Yellow-rumps in all phases of molt from breeding to winter plumage, several each Orange-crowned and Wilson's, 1 Townsend's (more on their feast later). And there was a second Eastern Phoebe, an adult, and a Black Phoebe also there today. I have seen an immature Eastern Phoebe a few times over the past month in and near this location so suspect today's immature may be the same one as it engaged in several antagonistic interactions with the Black and the adult Eastern Phoebe, possibly intended to chase them from it's territory.
I didn't get photos of the adult Eastern or the Black Phoebes but did get them of the immature Eastern. I have posted those photos on my Birds and Nature blog. The buffy wing bars are evident and I enlarge one photo that shows the pointed rectices on this bird.
SeEtta Moss
Canon City
Blogging for Birds and Blooms magazine @ http://birdsandbloomsblog.com/author/seetta-moss/
Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com
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