I saw both the juvenile and the adult male YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER today at Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer). It is a rare day, indeed, when multiple sapsuckers are seen at one site in northern Colorado in winter. Although it is a very mild day today, this isn't "Banana Belt", Colorado (aka Canon City).
The juvenile was in the Scots Pine it frequented 10 days or so ago in northeast corner of the portion of the cemetery north of the entrance and west of the ditch. The adult male was in the Austrian Pine grove just out on the golf course from the southwest corner of the cemetery (find the green porta potty and the bird was in the third pine due east of the porta potty along the fence line just out on the course, usually in the upper 1/3 of the tree on the north side). The female Great Horned Owl should have laid her second egg today and looked content on the nest. So far, so good, as far as photographers bothering the situation. If anybody need directions to the tree, email me privately. The two Golden-crowned Kinglets were active in some spruce next to a big hackberry. These spruce, in the northeast corner of Section 1, are about as reliable as any for these secretive birds (map of the cemetery is posted just west of the entrance office (i.e., between the office and the ditch bridge) at the west end of Mountain Avenue). 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 cobirds@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.
