Several people showed up at the cemetery to look for White-winged Crossbills today. Nick Komar reported seeing one female-type White-winged Crossbill leave the cemetery between 8 and 9am and a small group of probable Red Crossbills also leave about the same time, both going east. I, the Cringans, and a visiting birder from Marietta, GA (Al Mercer) looked in vain for 4 hours. Al and I saw a flock of 4 Snow Geese and 5 Ross's Geese flying high to the south about 11. About noon Mary and Tom France showed up, then Norma Erickson and Donna McLean from Greeley, then the Stermitzs. Now having a critical mass and plenty of desire, we began to hear crossbills swirl in from somewhere to the east (City Park or the mature tree neighborhoods nearby?). They went this way and that. We finally located the same pair (1 pink and 1 yellow-green) White-wings in the extreme southeast corner of the cemetery, feeding VERY quietly in tall spruce trees. Had we not heard them fly in, detection would have been nigh on impossible. Even knowing which exact little part of which tree they were in gave only fleeting glimpses thru very good scopes. But at least we saw them and confirmed their presence for at least the third straight day.
Other birds of interest seen between 9 and 1 at Grandview: The white geese Golden-crowned Kinglet (1 female) Townsend's Solitaire (1) White-breasted Nuthatch (1) Red-breasted Nuthatch (at least 20) Brown Creeper (several) Both chickadees (several of each) [No Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - checked along the south boundary and at the house over on Taft] Total of 23 species Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
