After briefly hearing a male broad-tailed hummingbird on April 12 or 13, I put up a feeder….
It promptly froze and had 5-6 inches of snow on it, with the 16” we got up here.
I thawed it out and refilled it on 4-19, and saw a female hummingbird visit it on
4-21. As usual, the local hairy woodpeckers come in and pry the yellow ‘flower’
Pieces out of the hummingbird feeder so it can lap up the sugar water. I guess their
Bills are larger than the hummingbirds’ J.
2 or more Chipping sparrows showed up yesterday, I think.
Still have at least 15-20 migrant juncos (Not the red superman cape type that breed in
Colorado, although I have 7-10 of those also). Lost one yesterday to a male Cooper’s,
I think. Have not seen a white-winged Junco for 2 weeks.
No sign of the common redpoll since Saturday.
The ‘usuals’ are around….Pine Siskins, Cassin’s finch, Black-capped and Mountain chickadees,
Wild Turkeys, Eurasion Collared Dove, Magpie, Steller’s Jay, White-breasted and Pygmy
Nuthatches, House Finch, American Goldfinch, Western and Mountain Bluebirds, Common
Flicker, Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, American Robin
…. Rock and Abert’s squirrel, Elk and Mule Deer
No sign of any swallows, or Lesser Goldfinch yet. I usually get 2 pair Tree, and 4-5 pair of
Violet-green swallows in my boxes, so expect them shortly.
Pinyon jays are unreliable…usually heard or seen daily, but don’t count on it.
Raymond Davis - at 6,000 ft. 4 miles NW of Lyons 303-823-5332 birders welcome, but
Call first… I’m retired and bored (will do anything to avoid housework), so come on up.
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