Hey, all.
Sorry, this isn't a black witch report. I have to say, I'm delighted that this list has been hijacked by those who delight in seeing and reporting black witches. Birds are marvelous, duh, but so are monstrous purple moths. And, hey, I *did* find a baby skunk the other day at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County:
-- Sorry, this isn't a black witch report. I have to say, I'm delighted that this list has been hijacked by those who delight in seeing and reporting black witches. Birds are marvelous, duh, but so are monstrous purple moths. And, hey, I *did* find a baby skunk the other day at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County:
But this is a bird report.
So...Yesterday evening, Mon., June 6, Hannah Floyd and I were at Greenlee Preserve, where we heard the descending grunts of a Virginia rail, my first this year at the preserve. (First blue grosbeak just a few days earlier. Stuff moves in July!) Moments later I heard what I believed to be a sora; at least one sora has been at the preserve for close to two months now.
Then we saw both birds, although not well, as it was getting dark, and the birds were in the dense cattails. They got closer and closer, and copulated, the bird on top unquestionably a Virginia rail. I assumed the other was another Virginia rail (a reasonable assumption?), and that my single-call-note-only (pleek!) of the sora must have been in error. But then the birds, ah, disengaged, and a sora shuffled off.
Soras and Virginia rails aren't especially close relatives, being in different genera. So there's no particular reason to believe that this palustrine assignation will result in something, ah, viable. But if you see some really weird rails in the next month or so, you'll know where they came from. And you heard it here first!
Okay, we're going back out to look for black witches now.
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
So...Yesterday evening, Mon., June 6, Hannah Floyd and I were at Greenlee Preserve, where we heard the descending grunts of a Virginia rail, my first this year at the preserve. (First blue grosbeak just a few days earlier. Stuff moves in July!) Moments later I heard what I believed to be a sora; at least one sora has been at the preserve for close to two months now.
Then we saw both birds, although not well, as it was getting dark, and the birds were in the dense cattails. They got closer and closer, and copulated, the bird on top unquestionably a Virginia rail. I assumed the other was another Virginia rail (a reasonable assumption?), and that my single-call-note-only (pleek!) of the sora must have been in error. But then the birds, ah, disengaged, and a sora shuffled off.
Soras and Virginia rails aren't especially close relatives, being in different genera. So there's no particular reason to believe that this palustrine assignation will result in something, ah, viable. But if you see some really weird rails in the next month or so, you'll know where they came from. And you heard it here first!
Okay, we're going back out to look for black witches now.
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
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