Hey, all.
It's been Brewers and clay-coloreds ever since at the preserve and adjoining Waneka Lake, along with the following, all since May 10: semipalmated plover, long-billed dowitcher, Wilson phalarope, snowy egret, black-crowned night-heron, least flycatcher, gray flycatcher, red-eyed vireo, rock wren, hermit thrush, Swainson thrush, brown thrasher, pine siskin, lesser goldfinch, ovenbird, northern waterthrush, Tennessee warbler, northern parula, and American redstart. Black-chinned hummingbirds, gray catbirds, and bushtits have been continually present throughout the period at and around The Shack. And the osprey show at Waneka has been ridiculous: Four individuals, by plumage, hunt over the lake from sunrise to sunset every day. I can't believe there are any fish left in the lake; and how are the ospreys and their families possibly consuming so much fish??
-- It started at 11:27pm on Tues., May 9, with a text, which I saw well after the fact, from Hannah Floyd that there was a big, Merlin-corroborated push of Brewer sparrows and clay-colored sparrows migrating over Lafayette, eastern Boulder Co. I'll spare you the family drama, but...Next time, wake me up! I don't care how peacefully I'm slumbering. Hannah's audio is awesome, with stratiform rain, distant thunder, and this bewitching descant of the little tsi notes of spectrographically diagnostic Brewer and clay-colored sparrows. And, sure enough, the next morning, Wed., May 10, they were on the ground at nearby Greenlee Wildlife Preserve.
It's been Brewers and clay-coloreds ever since at the preserve and adjoining Waneka Lake, along with the following, all since May 10: semipalmated plover, long-billed dowitcher, Wilson phalarope, snowy egret, black-crowned night-heron, least flycatcher, gray flycatcher, red-eyed vireo, rock wren, hermit thrush, Swainson thrush, brown thrasher, pine siskin, lesser goldfinch, ovenbird, northern waterthrush, Tennessee warbler, northern parula, and American redstart. Black-chinned hummingbirds, gray catbirds, and bushtits have been continually present throughout the period at and around The Shack. And the osprey show at Waneka has been ridiculous: Four individuals, by plumage, hunt over the lake from sunrise to sunset every day. I can't believe there are any fish left in the lake; and how are the ospreys and their families possibly consuming so much fish??
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder Co.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Colorado Birds" group.
To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en
* All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate
* Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAGk944dgYtHuL_5_gwyO0HV8jymXET6COiF63C4VCtz5_xpOzA%40mail.gmail.com.
No comments:
Post a Comment