There is a male Wood Duck in the bigger of two open water areas at Sheldon Lake, City Park, Fort Collins as of about noon today. Let's hope it can stick around for a month. We have sometimes missed this species in recent years during the FC CBC.
In Grandview Cemetery, near the center, was a group of about 25 Red Crossbills that I am estimating contained roughly fifteen Type 5s, nine Type 2s, and one Type 4. Definitely a mix of call notes and bill sizes in this loose flock feeding in the tops of both Colorado Blue and Engelmann Spruces.
Otherwise, plenty of Brown Creepers, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Mountain Chickadees in addition to the more expected species. I thought I might have heard a Pine Grosbeak give a "toodleup" call just once, but did not hear it again or locate it. Not sure where the Great Horned Owls are hanging out these days, but presumably they are within tall, dense spruce crowns. An American Tree Sparrow, unusual for the location, was coming to a feeder at the north end of Frey Avenue on the west side of the street (one house north of where the Brown Thrasher was last winter).
Fox Squirrels were eating frozen buckthorn (R. cathartica) berries (sometime you open the frig/freezer and there ain't much else).
No loons.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
In Grandview Cemetery, near the center, was a group of about 25 Red Crossbills that I am estimating contained roughly fifteen Type 5s, nine Type 2s, and one Type 4. Definitely a mix of call notes and bill sizes in this loose flock feeding in the tops of both Colorado Blue and Engelmann Spruces.
Otherwise, plenty of Brown Creepers, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Mountain Chickadees in addition to the more expected species. I thought I might have heard a Pine Grosbeak give a "toodleup" call just once, but did not hear it again or locate it. Not sure where the Great Horned Owls are hanging out these days, but presumably they are within tall, dense spruce crowns. An American Tree Sparrow, unusual for the location, was coming to a feeder at the north end of Frey Avenue on the west side of the street (one house north of where the Brown Thrasher was last winter).
Fox Squirrels were eating frozen buckthorn (R. cathartica) berries (sometime you open the frig/freezer and there ain't much else).
No loons.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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