Today, while photographing plants on the grounds of what remains of CSU's Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC) plantings - it is just west of the monstrous, new football stadium building site in the sw corner of the main Fort Collins campus - I had a Gray Catbird. It's late on the calendar for this unhardiest (is that a word?) of our common mimic thrushes, but maybe not considering the mild weather we've had so far this autumn. This would be a good bird to keep track of in hopes it sticks around until the Fort Collins Christmas Bird Count about 6 weeks from now. The location: in the extreme nw part of the PERC grounds is a large, pale building with lots of black planting tubs stacked by its se corner. Attached to the south side of this building is a dark green cement block shed. South of these structures is a 150-foot long hedge row oriented north-south. The bird was at the south end of the hedgerow near the cluster of buckeye/horsechestnut trees. Just west of this part of PERC is a large, multistoried new dorm.
As further demonstration of how creatures are hanging on to summer, also today a tattered but active Common Buckeye (butterfly) was soaking up sun here and there on the paths in the northwest corner of Fort Collins' Gardens on Spring Creek, about a mile south of PERC on the west side of Centre Avenue south of Prospect.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
As further demonstration of how creatures are hanging on to summer, also today a tattered but active Common Buckeye (butterfly) was soaking up sun here and there on the paths in the northwest corner of Fort Collins' Gardens on Spring Creek, about a mile south of PERC on the west side of Centre Avenue south of Prospect.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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