Hello, everybody. Looks like dickcissel reports are starting to pick up in the Front Range metro region. Yesterday afternoon, Monday, Aphelion Day, July 4, 2016, Frank Izaguirre and Adrienne Izaguirre and I heard a dickcissel flying over Ish Reservoir at the Boulder-Larimer County divide. But we were standing in Boulder County at the time of detection. So it counts! At Ish we also saw two gorgeous six-lined racerunners, Aspidoscelis sexlineata. And some small men in large trucks, but I digress . . .
-- Over at nearby Union Reservoir, Weld County (small men...large trucks...), there was a spiffy Caspian tern. It probably had been at Jim Hamm Nature Area, Boulder County. Speaking of which, Jim Hamm had a surprising hooded merganser and a duck with Mexican duck genes.
Down at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, this Tuesday morning, July 5, I heard my first blue grosbeak for the site this year. Curious that singing males of this species never materialize at the preserve until around or sometime after Aphelion Day. Also saw a great egret this morning at nearby Waneka Lake. Other birds in the past few days at the Waneka/Greenlee complex: blue-winged teal, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, American white pelican, Osprey, Swainson hawk, African collared-dove, common nighthawk, chimney swift, broad-tailed hummingbird, woodpeckers with yellow-shafted flicker genes, Say phoebe, bushtit, cedar waxwing, and spotted towhee.
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
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