I've enjoyed and been jealous of the recent Cassin's finch activity. Walking around Louisville early-ish this morning hoping to see some, just as I was wondering whether to head downtown since they've been seen around there, ears and brain connected and I realized I was hearing a finch din on both sides, not all from house finches. There were about 3 dozen birds, including probably a dozen Cassin's -on Coyote Run open space several hundred yards east of Harper Lake and just west of Washington, some at a house with feeders on the north side of the trail, and others in a tree on the south side.
Then a little while ago, clearing snow off my car, when I took a pause from fussing at the hackberry tree above my driveway for dropping snow blobs on my head, ears and brain connected again and I realized not all the chatter in the hackberry was coming from chickadees - there were several bushtits. The little cuties! I've seen them in the same tree before, and not when the gall-filled leaves are on, so they are after something else. I live close to Cottonwood Park and Lake Park, and have seen them a couple times in those areas too. Bev Baker Louisville -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/16326185-a4ec-4164-929d-4d80b4f392bc%40googlegroups.com.
