[cobirds] Re: White-eyed Vireo - deKoevend Park (Arapahoe)

This morning, Gary Witt and I watched the White-eyed Vireo sing and feed near the walking bridge that connects the South Suburban Ice Arena to deKoevend Park in Centennial, CO (Arapahoe). This is just a bit south of where the bird has been since the 18th. I regretted not having my camera with me, as the bird perched very close to the bridge and in the open, singing in the warm morning light.

I've met a few birders looking for the vireo later in the afternoon and early evening. Most don't hear it or find it then. I know that I haven't heard it during the few walks that I've taken at deKoevend in the afternoon and evening. I've heard the bird, however, every morning (6:30-8:30 AM) since the 18th and been able to spot it most mornings. So if you still hope to see the vireo, you may want to try to get to the park early.

The bird seems to be slowly but surely moving south along the High Line Canal, five or ten meters per day. If it continues at this rate, it'll end up in my yard in two and a half months. (Does eBird accept future bird reports?) Or maybe it'll move on to the Dry Creek Trail, where Mary O'Connor found a White-eyed Vireo in June 2014. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 10:36:22 AM UTC-6, Jared Del Rosso wrote:

This morning, the White-eyed Vireo at deKoevend Park in Centennial (Arapahoe) was singing from a row of trees between the High Line Canal Trail and some playing fields at the park. This is in the same general area where the bird has been seen and heard since May 18; however, it's a bit deeper into the park then usual. The area is surrounded on three sides (but not the trail side) with plastic, construction fencing. If the bird stays in these trees, you may have more luck spotting the bird from the playing fields than from the trail.

On my first pass by the vireo's area, I missed the bird. It was only on my return trip that I heard it. So if you go looking for the bird, give it some time to make its presence known.

I didn't see much else at the park, except a pewee-like flycatcher flycatching from a chain-link fence, which seemed an unusual way to flycatch for a pewee-like flycatcher. 

Yesterday, in my yard across University from deKoevend, I had two new yard birds: a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher stopped by while I was doing yard work and a Wilson's Warbler, the first I've seen in the area since late-April, spent the day. Two Turkey Vultures, the first I've seen from my yard since early-April, drifted overhead around 4:30 PM. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

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