Re: [cobirds] Rose-breasted Grosbeak, central Bldr Cnty & other news

Just to remind everybody: female orioles sing frequently. So do female cardinals and grosbeaks. In fact, females sing at least rarely in most passerine species. So beware of assuming that a bird is a male just because it's singing!

Nathan Pieplow

Boulder

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Linda Andes-Georges <andesgeorges@comcast.net> wrote:

I suppose this is the same bird that was here last year for about a week in early June. I hear it singing at the top of the hill near us, which is on Ouray Dr at the level of #8424 (lion statue; noisy dogs). It did not remain there for long, or breed successfully, as far as I could tell, and I wonder why it came back! Same question about the Ovenbirds in south Boulder, which return year after year but for which we have never found signs of successful breeding.

We also have-- in our yard-- an intriguing Bullock's Oriole; it must be a young male, judging from behavior, although it has little trace of a black goatee. It sings like a male, and has been going around the house tapping on windows, like a robin.

Black-chinned hummers, both sexes, visiting the feeders...

Linda

Linda Andes-Georges
Boulder County (W of Lagerman, N of Haystack, E of Table Mtn)
[Jean-Pierre says: W of Paris, S of Quebec, E of Tahiti]
8417 Stirrup Ln

Longmont CO 80503

Tel. 720 668 5214

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