OK, call me crazy but I visited four cemeteries in one day and lived to tell about it: Eaton, Linn Grove in Greeley (both Weld), Roselawn and Grandview in Fort Collins (Larimer).
Eaton
Common Grackle (estimate of 5,000, could have 10,000, didn't have enough fingers and toes) - totally made birding by ear a useless pursuit
Mountain Chickadee (at least 3)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (2)
Linn Grove (16th Ave. a few miles e of US85 outerbelt in northeastern Greeley)
Mountain Chickadee (at least 2)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (at least 2)
Black-capped Chickadee (5)
[Mute Swan - 2, begging mercilessly to be fed and considered countable]
Roselawn (n side of US14 e of Summit View Drive)
Mountain Chickadee (2)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (at least 2)
Cassin's Finch (1f)
Grandview Cemetery (west end of Mountain Ave., FC)
Mountain Chickadee (1)
Bushtit (5)
Red Crossbill (at least 25 of 2 different types (5 and 4?)
White-throated Sparrow (1i tan-striped, still in the southeastern corner feasting mostly on cathartic buckthorn berries)
Hermit Thrush (1, also eating European Buckthorn berries in the se corner)
Considering the entire day:
*Beautiful weather.
*Hackberry gall-making psyllids mostly hatched east of Fort Collins, moving into spruce to overwinter in bark (and where most of the migrant songbirds were that weren't actually in hackberry)
*No warblers besides Yellow-rumps and one Orange-crowned. No crane flyovers. No solitaires. Only one thrush besides robins. Lots of Ruby-crowned Kinglets, White-breasted Nuthatches (interior types), Chipping Sparrows (Eaton and Greeley).
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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