[cobirds] Christian's magical longspur

Hello, Birders.

This is a note of local interest--and universal irony.

Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, Jan. 31, Andrew Floyd and I ran into--literally, almost ran into--Christian Nunes on the trail at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County. Christian told us he'd heard a lapland longspur flying over Lookout Road, a bit north of Greenlee Preserve, earlier in the day--whereupon I lamented that I almost never encounter the species in Boulder County.

So, this snowy Monday afternoon, Feb. 1, Andrew and I were again out and about, this time throwing the football around, when, what should fly straight over South Fork Drive near the intersection of Salina (a.k.a. the entrance to Greenlee Preserve) but a loudly declaiming lapland longspur, my 233rd eBird life bird at the Greenlee/Waneka complex.    

In other news from Greenlee Preserve and Waneka Lake, the long-present gray catbird was softly mewing yesterday morning, Jan. 31, and a horned lark flew over. The brown creepers are still around, a bald eagle visits from time to time, and a few days ago I thought I heard a white-throated sparrow (just the call note) in a yard on the west side of the preserve.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

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