Jessie and I spent a couple hours at Genesee Mountain Park this afternoon. The birding was pretty typical for this time of year, with flocks of Pygmy Nuthatches and Mountain Chickadees and not a lot of other species. We only had a couple flyover Red Crossbills and no other finches. The biggest surprise was a calling NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL that was calling from the south slope below the flag pole. It first gave the chittering call that I usually associate with females, and then a series of three toots. It called several other times, always more typical male-like toots. As we were looking for it, we were distracted by the strangest Mule Deer that I have ever seen. It had apparently locked antlers with another Mule Deer and then somehow managed to pull free with one of the antlers from the other deer.
Photos of the deer and few birds from Genesee plus the Brambling from yesterday at the link below. I know it is just a Mule Deer, but I think it's worth looking at. I have seen several photos of deer, elk and moose with locked antlers that have died, but none like this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinicola/ A link to the eBird checklist here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12127325 Best, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
