Hello, Birders. Walden Ponds, Boulder County, was nice and birdy early this Sunday morning, August 22nd.
The first bird I saw, as I turned in from 75th Street, was a Peregrine Falcon flying east just above the treetops. Notable landbird migrants included a Northern Waterthrush and an Indigo Bunting. (I don't think Indigo Buntings breed at Walden Ponds; in Boulder County, they're more of a foothills breeder.) Other landbirds included 7 Western Wood-Pewees, 3 Eastern Kingbirds, 1 Western Warbling-Vireo, 3 Bank Swallows still hanging on, 1 Gray Catbird, 3 Brewer's Sparrows, 1 Black-headed Grosbeak, and 1 Pheucticus sp. Yellow Warblers and Common Yellowthroats were widespread; I heard flight calls from both species, so I think some of these were birds on passage, not local breeders. Aquatic species included 2 Wood Ducks, 3 Green Herons, and 1 Sora. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Follow Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine ------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
