I always get a thrill on the odd occasions when species of vastly different habitats or geographic or seasonal affiliations can be enjoyed at the same time. Back home along the central CA coast I recall instances like a usually summertime Elegant Tern beside a Glaucous Gull in December, or a Pileated Woodpecker calling wildly from a pine slope overlooking a beach with Black Oystercatchers in a calling frenzy. How often does an oystercatcher hear a Pileated?
-- Anyway, flash to CO and this morning, as I was in a meeting in the parish office at St. Mary Church in Littleton, window open to the lovely springlike weather. In mid-meeting I heard the distant but distinctly delightful uvular trill of Sandhill Cranes!. Being in mixed company (the rest were not birders) engaged in a serious topic of discussion, I had to make a discrete request to step out of the room for a minute. I dashed outside and the cranes were still calling. I was able to spot them - three - flying northeast pretty high up there. Then I noticed high burry "see-see" notes coming from the spruce right beside me: a Golden-crowned Kinglet! I managed a view of the bird as it cavorted in associations with a few Black-capped Chickadees.
The cranes went on, of course. I paid attention to see if the kinglet was evident later in the day but it was not. Two good birds for Littleton.
David Suddjian
Littleton, CO
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