Hello, Birders.
There was a wonderful Spizella sparrow flight in the later part of the overnight hours earlier "today." I heard the first little flight call at 2:59, and they kept at it all the way until 5:00 a.m. when I went back in.
I assumed they were all Chipping Sparrows, but when I was looking at the sound spectrograms a bit later in the morning, while feeding the loud cat and getting the kids ready for soccer (do we live in an age of multi-tasking or what), I noticed that a few apparent Brewer's Sparrows had snuck in. I say "apparent" Brewer's Sparrows because I'm not sure--I doubt anybody's sure--of the overlap between Chipping and Brewer's.
The passage was straight east, the whole time. I.e., I would hear a flight call to the west, then overhead, then to the east.
Oh, and if I didn't already have West Nile Virus, I probably do now:
If you're looking for the perfect excuse to witness the glorious midsummer night flight of Chipping Sparrows over Colorado's Front Range region, here ya go:
Scroll down to "Saturday, August 3," although, as you can see from the text, they really mean "Sunday, August 4." Along with practically the whole solar system, you get a bunch of fantastic deep sky objects, readily viewed through decent binoculars. Plus sparrows migrating over. I can't imagine anything else I'd rather be doing at 4am Sunday morning! (Thanks to Bob Zilly for this tip.)
Ted Floyd
tedfloyd57@hotmail.com
Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado
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