This morning I had a fast flying flock of Red Crossbills pass over near my home. They included the usual Type 2 call type, but most of the flock were Type 4 Red Crossbills, which until last summer's incursion was rarely noted here in the Ken Caryl area. At least I think they were Type 4, looking at the sonogram. Evening Grosbeaks finally stopped showing up here in mid-May, after an unusually good spring showing. I've appreciated the subtle presence of the recently returned Western Flycatchers. I admire how they are typically among the last of our breeding residents to appear. And I love the contrast with the Western (Pacific-slope) form's pattern of arrival where I lived at the central California coast. There they arrive in the 3rd and 4th week of March. Here in Colorado the Cordilleran form is two months later.
-- Last evening we heard a Nor. Saw-whet Owl calling in the distance from atop the Lyons hogback while on a DFO poorwill field trip in the hogbacks (16 poorwills). I have not had this owl in the hogback area outside of the winter period. This bird was in oak scrub with juniper, by the sound of things.
David Suddjian
Ken Caryl Valley
Littleton, CO
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