Hello, Birders. Andrew and I saw something cool this morning, Friday, August 19th, at Walden Ponds, Boulder County. A bunch of birds put up as a Peregrine Falcon flew by. They were Black-billed Magpies...lots and lots of them, ever increasing in number, like clowns coming out of a telephone booth. The Peregrine took one look at what it had done, and just high-tailed it outta there. Eventually, the sky was filled with no fewer than 119 (!) Black-billed Magpies, squawking, and just making an overall ruckus, and doing avian high-fives over having turned away the Peregrine. Other stuff for us at Walden Ponds: 8 widely scattered Wood Ducks1 Green Heron3 Ospreys at a nest platform1 distant flapping and soaring Bald Eagle1 fly-by Cooper's Hawk3 sociable Solitary Sandpipers2 Warbling Vireos, probably "Westerns," including one very yellow job with a boldly marked face; some people call those birds Philadelphia Vireos, but they aren't8 Eastern Kingbirds, but 0 Westerns2 Wilson's Warblers Pleasant morning. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Please check out the website of the ABA: http://tinyurl.com/6kmbfvx And please check out The ABA Blog: http://tinyurl.com/4n6qswt We're on twitter, too: http://tinyurl.com/2ejzlzv -------------------------------
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