Hello, Birders. Despite the light rain, there was a decent nocturnal passage of warblers, sparrows, and a few sandpipers over Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, earlier today, Tuesday, August 24th. The diversity of warbler/sparrow "seep"-type notes was high, with most of the birds seeming to be Brewer's Sparrow. I heard only one Chipping Sparrow. I was reasonably confident, too, that Yellow and Wilson's warblers were in the mix. Thought I heard Orange-crowned and MacGillivray's warblers, too, but the flight calls of those two are still a bit of a "work in progress" for me. And there were some other call notes, in the mix, among them Lark Bunting, Western Meadowlark, and Bullock's Oriole. Shorebirds, too. I heard Solitary and Baird's sandpipers.
And here's the cautious prediction: It will be a good day for grounded migrants in the Front Range region, and perhaps beyond. With winds out of the north, birds were evidently on the move last night; and with rain settling in at sunrise, I imagine a lot of stuff is grounded right now. The night flight was decent (although not great; it was a bit more than 1 flight call per minute), and it was decently diverse. Call in sick today! ------------------------------- 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.
