Here is the complete list (in the order of discovery) for a multi-hour, late-morning visit to Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins (Larimer) today, 4 December 2010. Nothing rare, but each visit is always interesting. I joined Cree and Skyler Bol, a mother and son team working on a school bird project with the hypothesis "if you know bird sounds you can double the number of species detected for any one site visit".
European Starling (several, mostly in big, decrepit silver maples with cavities) Brown Creeper (at least 5, mostly inside spruce crowns) Canada Goose (many more flying over than has been the case since last spring) Northern Flicker (several) Blue Jay (few heard off to the west) Rock Pigeon (several sitting on a distant power pole either discussing the pros and cons of being a Great Horned Owl entree (females?) or twirling around with lust (males?)) American Robin (few) House Sparrow (several heard) White-breasted Nuthatch (1 heard) House Finch (several, mostly eating green ash seeds) Red-breasted Nuthatch (at least 5, mostly in the interior crowns of spruce) Golden-crowned Kinglet (1f, with chickadees, nuthatches and creepers inside spruce crowns, lifer for Skyler) Hairy Woodpecker (1 heard in spruce) Black-capped Chickadee (several) American Goldfinch (several, eating green ash seeds with House Finches) American Crow (few) Red Crossbill (1 or 2 females, coming to a particular few blue spruce in Section S, as a flock of up to 6 have been for weeks, presumably Type 5s, lifer for Skyler) Townsend's Solitaire (1 eating Rocky Mountain Juniper berries near the entrance) Cackling Goose (few mixed in with the Canadas) Dark-eyed Juncos (few slate-colors, eating buckthorn fruits) Total of 20 species Misses (species known to be at or over GC of late, just not today): Great Horned Owl Ring-billed Gull Downy Woodpecker Black-billed Magpie Eurasian Collared-Dove Mountain Chickadee Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Mallard Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- 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.
