Cobrids:
Holy crap! With all the incredible reports coming in from all
over the state, I wonder whether it was worth it to post. After reading
the Two Buttes reports, I mulled over throwing my bird book out the
window. In any event, I know there's some small competition going on in
Boulder County for some - so I'll post this anyways..... Everything listed
here is for Boulder County.
Broad tailed hawk seen from the summit of Bear Peak (Boulder Mountain Park)
along with other migrants, including:
Prairie falcon - 1
Sharp shinned hawk - 2
Red tailed hawk - 1
Osprey - 1 (no kidding)
Turkey vulture - 12
Coopers hawk - 2 (seen lower down)
Three toed woodpeckers - 2 males - have staked out territories above 7,000
feet on the backside of Bear Peak in the burn area. Both have drawn a line
(so to speak) on the top of the burned ridge and threaten each other with
knocks and staccato raps.
Black headed grosbeaks have returned in several areas - Gregory Canyon,
Bear Creek, etc.
Dusky grouse in two locations:
3 - backside of Bear Peak on the West Ridge Trail
3 - on the Greenman Trail going up Green Mt.
Eastern phoebes persist at 75th and Boulder Creek underpass, foraging along
the Heatherwood Trail (the owls will be watching you).
Warblers:
Virginia's warbler - 1 - Bear Creek; 1 - Bear Peak, 1 - Ampetheatre
Trail, 1 - Green man Trail
MacGillvray's warbler - 1 - Twin Lakes
Yellow warbler - 1 - brightly colored singing male - South Boulder Creek
Trail and South Boulder Road
Myrtle warbler - at South Boulder Creek, Walden, Sawhills, Twin Lakes,
Heatherwood Trail
Audubon'w warbler - same as above, also - Bear Peak, Bear Canyon, Green
Mountain - singing males are now fighting and chasing in territories above
7,000 feet. Females are present there also.
Orange crowned warbler - a few still at Twin Lakes
Hermit thrush - Bear Creek Trail \ Bear Creek Drive - 1
White crowned sparrow - 2 - same as above
Vesper sparrow - Louisville
Chipping sparrow - 12 - small flock at Boulder Creek near Foothills highway
Green tailed towhee - 1 - in my backyard - Louisville - 3rd year in a row.
Broad tailed hummingbird - seemingly everywhere - Lafayette, Boulder,
Louisville, lower elevations and up to 8,000 feet
White throated swift - summits of Bear Peak and Green Mt.
All six swallow species are here.
Belted kingfishers are nesting along Coal Creek Trail in Lafayette
Black crowned night herons - 2 - Along Coal Creek
Ruby crowned kinglet - numbers increasing - singing and moving up in
elevation
Bullock's oriole - many - in several locations, especially Bear Creek and
Cottonwood Marsh.
Wildflowers and leafing trees are still over 2 weeks late - it looks more
like mid-April - but here's a few:
Pasqueflower, spring beauty, wallflower, bladderpod, yellow violet, white
violet, purple violet, Wyeth bisquitroot, desert parsley, wild plum, Oregon
grape, bastard toadflax, buttercup ssp:, sand lilly, cranesbill, several
mustard ssp, several vetch ssp.
Herpetological:
Western painted turtle
Western chorus frog
Eastern fence lizard
Snakes - 0 (Darn!)
Insects are out, finally, so the birds can have something to eat. Of
special note: bumper crop of Morning Cloak butterflies.
Enjoy the weather, John T (Tumasonis) of Louisville CO
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