Friday, 8 December 2017

[cobirds] Harris's Sparrow - Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens (Arapahoe)

This afternoon  (12/3), I took a brief walk with my dog through Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens (Arapahoe). This was our third one at the cemetery this week. Each time, we hugged the hedgerow along the cemetery's western edge hoping to relocate the Harris's Sparrow that Cynthia Madsen, Dave Hill, and I found on Sunday. The previous two walks yielded nothing, leading me to think the bird had gone. But this afternoon, some halfhearted pishing brought out a chickadee, then some House Finches, then juncos, then the Harris's Sparrow. I got some bad, but definitive, views of the bird. I figured if halfhearted pishing got me bad views, a wholehearted effort would get me a photo. Instead, every bird fled. I refound them all but the Harris's, which seems to have a fondness for sticking deep in the hedges or perhaps even on the other side of them, as both of my encounters with it have been brief. 

- Jared Del Rosso
Centennial, CO

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