Re: [cobirds] Dipper & Creeper behavior (Larimer)

Fortuitously, this morning I looked out a back window and saw a small bird flit down from a viburnum to a small patch of snow. I grabbed my bins in time to see a Brown Creeper poking at the snow. First time I've seen that behavior.

Chuck Hundertmark

Lafayette

On Feb 2, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Dave <daleatherman@msn.com> wrote:

Hi Jeff

Thanks for your post.  Creepers going to the ground is something that happens on occasion.  At Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins the things I think they are getting (when they let me figure it out) are hackberry gall-making psyllids, ants, maybe spruce seeds and melted water/snow/ice.  Because their normal foraging pattern is to fly to the bottom of a tree and spiral upward, I think they notice things on the soil near the base of said trunk and get sidetracked opportunistically.  The water acquisition activity is no doubt premeditated.

Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins

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On Feb 2, 2021, at 6:59 AM, Jeff Kehoe <jeff.kehoe@gmail.com> wrote:

Dippers have been singing a lot in the last week or so along the Big Thompson River.  Part of the river is iced over, but there is still alot of open water.  We seem to have a couple pairs in our area.

I watched a Brown Creeper creeping across the ground for about 10 yards at my home.  There is probably a lot of seeds from weeks & feeder spill in that area.  But I've never seen them on the ground before.  They have always been on trees, which is expected.  Anybody else seen this?

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