[cobirds] Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer) on 5/1

Grandview Cemetery at the west terminus of Mountain Avenue in Fort Collins certainly showed influence of the recent cold, wet weather this morning.

Highlights included:
Merlin (black "sukleyi" race, see photo below)
Orange-crowned Warbler (9!)
Cassin's Finch (female at feeder one block east of the cemetery on Frey Avenue)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (2m, 1f)
Hermit Thrush (1)
Mountain Bluebird (flyover)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (at least 30, mostly feeding in hackberry and elms)
Hairy Woodpecker (1 mountain form)
Common Merganser (1 flyover)
Blue-winged Teal (first ever for me in the cemetery, female hanging in the ditch with a male Mallard (would make for interesting offspring))
Lincoln's Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing (flock of at least 50)
Chipping Sparrow (few)
House Wren (heard in yard just east of cemetery)
Franklin's Gull (flock of 34 flyovers)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (3)

Total of 37 species, by far the highest total of the year and one of the Top 5 totals ever

BTW - the Ovenbird reported to the RBA that has been at my front door and under nearby junipers for the last three days has moved on

 

   "Black" Merlin out on the City Park 9 golf course just south of Grandview Cemetery on 5/1/16

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins