Re: [cobirds] Unusual Cordilleran Flycatcher nest location. Lyons, Boulder county

I also have a Cordilleran hanging around our house this year and it's been around for about a month.  It may be nesting but I don't know where.

Ira Sanders

Golden 

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 6:04 PM MARK CHAVEZ <markchavez@comcast.net> wrote:

It's funny to see this post!!  Currently, I have a Cordilleran Flycatcher nesting in  my yard in west Lakewood.This is pretty rare occurrence for suburbia away from the foothills.  It is nesting in a fake Barn Swallow(the nest is to attract swallows) nest put under the eve of my house about 5 years ago. She is about on day 10 of the incubation of the eggs.The male comes by periodically to check on the female.  Pretty cool!!  See the attachments below: 

Mark Chavez
Lakewood-Green Mtn
http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/

On 07/11/2020 4:58 PM DAVID A LEATHERMAN <daleatherman@msn.com> wrote:

Adrian,

Very cool.  Thanks for posting.

Below is a pic of a male Canyon Wren arriving at its nest inside an old Cliff Swallow pot while swallows actively refurbishing the old hood look on.  This happened a few years back at Lory State Park w of FtCollins.

    

I wonder if these birds making use of old swallow nests are affected by swallow bugs, which are ectoparasites related to the human bed bug, and which reside in swallow nests.  Their accumulating numbers are part of the reason swallows often build new nests before each breeding season.

Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins

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Subject: [cobirds] Unusual Cordilleran Flycatcher nest location. Lyons, Boulder county

I was social distancing birding along Old South St. Vrain Road in Lyons with Rolf Hertenstein and Patrick Bohan this morning and we saw an unusual nest location for a Cordilleran Flycatcher. It was using an old Cliff Swallow nest. We've never seen this before. Anyone else witnessed this or other strange nest locations?

Adrian Lakin,

Mead, CO

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