Hello, Birders. Hannah and Andrew and I birded around Boulder County this Thanksgiving afternoon, Thursday, Nov. 26th. At the point where the St. Vrain "River" crosses 63rd Street, we saw--and more to the point heard--a Pacific Wren. The bird was with a flock of Pink-sided and Slate-colored Juncos. It stayed pretty tight in a tangle of understory vegetation extending from 40.196155N, 105.207924W to 40.196143N, 105.208173W. The bird called constantly and responded well to pishing. Learn all about the Pacific Wren at Nathan Pieplow's blog: http://tiny.cc/7Z2vl. It's a cool bird, it's surely a valid species, and its call doesn't sound much like a Winter Wren's. (I don't agree that its call note sounds like a Wilson's Warbler--or any other warbler, really. To my ears, the call of Pacific Wren sounds more like the call of Carolina Wren.) By the way, I actually think there were two Pacific Wrens back in there; sure sounded like it, anyhow. (The habitat is wonderful.) But I never saw more than the one bird at a time. Over at Lagerman Reservoir, we saw the Long-tailed Duck discovered last week by Bill Schmoker. And at McIntosh Lake, we saw a few Bonaparte's Gulls still lingering, a bunch of moribund gizzard shad, and Nick Komar and Cole Wild. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Check out Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine ------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009v2
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