[cobirds] Grandview Cemeetery on 9/24 and 9/25 (Fort Collins, Larimer)

Highlights of 3-hour visit on Monday and 6+ hour visit today (9/25):

Red-naped Sapsucker (1i male) on 9/24.  In European Buckthorn briefly, presumably getting fruits, FOY at Grandview)

Red-naped Sapsucker (2i females) on 9/25.  Often side by side, mostly in crabapple just n of the blue recycling barrel near the entry bridge.

              

Steller's Jay (1 flyover on 9/25, flying sw to ne, FOY at Grandview).

Lincoln's Sparrow (1 along ditch in southeastern corner on 9/24)

Hermit Thrush (2 on 9/25, one under European buckthorn where one hung out last fall eating fallen fruits) 

White-throated Sparrow (1 first-winter in big flock of Chipping Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos on 9/25, FOY at Grandview)

White-crowned Sparrow (3, FOY at Grandview)

Broad-winged Hawk (1 flyover n to s on 9/24)

Townsend's Warblers (few both days, mostly in pines along south boundary just out on golf course)

American Crow (flock of 71 traveling sw to ne on 9/24)

Common Grackle (flock of 40 flying north on 9/25)

Influx of Yellow-rumped Warblers and Brown Creepers with the cold front today.  As has been reported earlier, a lot of the birds in elms appear to be pursuing, rather frantically, yellowjackets.  Barn Swallows still appear to have young under Taft at Laporte Ave.  Turkey Vultures still roosting in spruce a couple blocks east of the cemetery on Mountain Avenue.  One pewee still present today.

24 species on 9/24

33 species on 9/25

Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins