I went up Rist Canyon (Larimer) west of Bellvue today and did a brief inventory mostly by ear of birds at the old USFS Picnic Area (roughly MP13, I think, on LCR52E). As you may know or remember from last summer's posts, this area largely escaped the ravages of the High Park Fire.
Today at least two male Ovenbirds were singing on territory. (Hugh, they are always higher and further away than they sound - the one I finally located today was usually in a conifer (Douglas-fir) at least 25 feet up on a bare branch and when I got him in view he would always move to a new perch slightly out of view.]
I also found a Plumbeous Vireo nest in construction, female hard at work with the male singing his brains out in support, on a low limb of a totally fire-killed Douglas-fir (needles completely red).
Life goes on in the fire-adapted forests of the West. Total of 22 species seen or heard in about an hour.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
Today at least two male Ovenbirds were singing on territory. (Hugh, they are always higher and further away than they sound - the one I finally located today was usually in a conifer (Douglas-fir) at least 25 feet up on a bare branch and when I got him in view he would always move to a new perch slightly out of view.]
I also found a Plumbeous Vireo nest in construction, female hard at work with the male singing his brains out in support, on a low limb of a totally fire-killed Douglas-fir (needles completely red).
Life goes on in the fire-adapted forests of the West. Total of 22 species seen or heard in about an hour.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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