Hello, Birders.
Andrew and I had a nice ramble around Walden Ponds, Boulder County, earlier this morning, Sunday, April 28. At Cottonwood Marsh, we saw 2 Black-necked Stilts on the mudflats over on the west side of the marsh.
Other stuff out there: 5 Wood Ducks, 2 lingering Common Mergansers, a spiffy Clark's Grebe, lots of activity at the Great Blue Heron rookery, Ospreys at the nest platform, 4 American Avocets, 1 Wilson's Snipe, 1 excellent Great Horned Owl, 1 Eastern Phoebe, 5 House Wrens, 2 American Dippers, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, 4 Myrtle Warblers, 5 Audubon's Warblers, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 2 Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows still hanging on, 2 Yellow-headed Blackbirds, and 15 Brown-headed Cowbirds.
One of the Orange-crowns was bright yellow all over. Was it lutescens, the "Pacific" Orange-crowned Warbler? Well, I audio-recorded the bird's exuberant song, and I guess it's up to Pieplow and Mlodinow to figure this one out.
Ted Floyd
tedfloyd57@hotmail.com
Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado
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