Thursday, 24 August 2017

[cobirds] Red-breasted Nuthatch

Walter et al,

It seems, as the urban ornamental conifer resource matures, RbNuthatch is getting more widespread at low elevation as a breeder (widespread in Ft Collins, local in Greeley, rarely in Lamar, probably other places) and at this time of year they certainly show up all over the eastern plains.  I made an distinctly unsuccessful run yesterday and today for the swallow-tailed kite in my second home of Lamar.  As a very minor consolation to not seeing the kite, I had red-breasted nuthatches in three locations down there.  (Other consolations were a roadrunner at Parkview Elementary (same school that once had one of the few CO records of 9-banded armadillo) just north of the Willow Creek Park swimming pool, red-headed woodpeckers and a bunting (never could see it), both at the north end of the park.  [There are at least two families of northern cardinals at the LCC Woods (and chiggers)].


There seems to be a good dispersal of pygmy nuthatches to lower elevation this year, too.  Several have been reported in the Denver area and I have had them at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins for the last two weeks.


Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins

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