[cobirds] August Birds Woodland Park, Buena Vista areas

[joe...@betterbirdwatching.com]

Woodland Park Yard Area

Yellow-rumped Warbler, started flocking, 8-30
House Finch, male, 8-26, first for yard area
Northern Goshawk, along Lovell Gulch Trail on 8-31
Pinyon Jay, flyover flock of 8 on 8-31
Loggerhead Shrike, 8-24
Blue Jay, 8-15, Manitou Springs
Rock Wren, near Lake George, 8-16
Lesser Goldfinch, near Lake George, 8-16
Calliope Hummingbird, 1 F, 8-11, 8-17
Dark-eyed Junco feeding cowbird fledgling on 8-10
Western Tanager, 8-4
Lots of juveniles in and around yard area in late July then gone by mid 
Aug. incl. magpie, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Hairy Woodpecker, Pygmy Nuthatch, 
Red-naped and Willimason Sapsuckers, Evening Grosbeak, House Wren, flicker, 
Chipping Sparrow

Mount Elbert Trail near Leadville, 8-28
Brown-capped Rosy Finch, some, incl. juv.
American Pipit, flocking

Mount Huron Trail near Buena Vista, 8-12
White-tailed Ptarmigan, with juvs.
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, lots
Gray Jay


Joe LaFleur
Woodland Park


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[cobirds] Barr Lake Banding Visit

[Amber Carver]

Hi, All!

I reserved a group visit to the banding station at Barr Lake this Friday 7-11, 
with the intention of taking students from my school (University of Colorado 
Denver). I didn't get much interest, and it is now too late to cancel the trip 
without losing my registration fee. I'm happy to go still but hate to show up 
with only 1-2 people for a 12-person trip. So, I thought I'd open this up to 
the birding community. Please email me if you're interested in visiting the 
banding station this Friday. Someone from Bird Conservancy of the Rockies will 
come out to talk to us about migratory birds and banding research. We could go 
birding afterward.

Thank you.
Amber Carver
Littleton, CO

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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Station Report - Barr Lake Station, 9/14/16

[meredith . mcburney]

Love days like this - cool early mornings, warming up enough to be pleasant 
but not too hot for banding!  Bird captures were fairly steady all morning. 
 Caught 60 birds, but over half had been banded previously this season. 
 Perhaps not surprising, given the really big day we had yesterday.  Here's 
the breakdown of the 29 new birds:

Northern Flicker, Red-shafted 1
Hammond's Flycatcher 1
House Wren 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1
Townsend's Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Wilson's Warbler 14
Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 1

We are open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16.We are 
closed every Monday in September, then October 4 and 12. We are opening 
nets at about 6:30 a.m. and we start closing between 11 a.m. and 12 noon. 
We will open later and/or close earlier if it is very hot, very cold, wet, 
windy, etc. There are school groups most weekday mornings, usually arriving 
around 9:30. Best times to visit, if you like lots of birds and fewer 
humans, are early mornings during the week and Sundays. 
 
Meredith McBurney
Bander/Biologist
Barr Lake Banding Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Re: South Mesa Trail birds this morning - Broad Winged Hawk

[Jeff Parks]

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[cobirds] South Mesa Trail birds this morning - Broad Winged Hawk

[Jeff Parks]

Hello all -

I had some time this morning to get out, and thought I would check the 
activity at the South Mesa Trail outside of Eldorado Springs.  There wasn't 
much activity around the parking lot, or near the creek, where I was hoping 
there might be a stray migrant or two.I only saw a couple of small 
birds flitting around in the thick bushes near the creek, much too fast for 
me to ID, and a few Blue Jays moving through the treetops.  I headed up the 
Mesa Trail, and turned off at the Towhee Trail.  Just before the Towhee 
turnoff,  I saw a Rock Wren hopping around on a large rock near the trail.  
As I continued up the Towhee, I saw another two or three working through 
the bushes along the trail.  A Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher was also seen along 
the lower stretch of the Towhee.  About half-way up, I saw a hawk come over 
the ridge from the north, circling around.  A quick look through the 
binoculars showed that it was not a red-tail, and then I saw a broad white 
band in the middle of the tail, with black bands on either side.  The very 
tip of the tail had a small band of white.  The wingtips and back edges of 
the wings were black, so I happily wrote down Broad-Winged Hawk in my daily 
log.  It circled for a few minutes, and then headed off to the south.  
Farther along, the Rock Wrens were still staying ahead of me, and I spotted 
what looked like a Prairie Falcon flying up the draw.  It landed in a tree 
out of sight, and wouldn't come out again.  When I got up to the top of the 
Towhee, there were a bunch of Yellow-Rumped Warblers working through the 
trees, and what looked like some Western Bluebirds as well. Their colors 
were pretty drab at this point, but everything pointed to WEBL as far as I 
could see. While I didn't see a large variety of birds, the ones I did see 
were well worth the effort.

Good birding -

Jeff Parks
Boulder, CO

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[cobirds] Re: Common Grackle movements in Lafayette, Boulder County

[Jeff Parks]

I observed a similar phenomenon a few weeks ago.  For the span of about an 
hour, there were lots of grackles moving through my neighborhood.  I 
watched them in my back yard, and my neighbor's back yards as well.  At 
times I would see around 30-50 birds, then they would thin out a bit, and 
then there would be another bunch moving through.  They were moving from 
south to north in Keywaydin Meadows on the east side of Foothills Parkway 
in Boulder.   I didn't see them feeding on anything, just moving through.  
I don't know if there were hundreds of birds, or if they were looping 
around and coming through several different times.  Since they all seemed 
to be moving in the same direction, I suspect it was a large flock moving 
through in one direction. I almost expected to hear the soundtrack from 
"The Birds" playing in the background.  

A few minutes ago, I looked out the window and saw the neighbor's tree full 
of grackles again.  There were around 50 in this flock, but they quickly 
moved on and there haven't been any more yet.  They were moving from south 
to north again, at this particular location anyway.

Jeff Parks
Boulder, CO  

 

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[cobirds] Re: Canyon Wren/Denver County

[Julia Auckland]

3:20 PM still hearing it - but it isn't singing or calling as much as in 
the morning.  If anybody comes looking for it, please park on 39th and walk 
south up the alley.  My neighbors will get grumpy if you block the alley.

Thanks,
Julia



On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 1:05:33 PM UTC-6, Julia Auckland wrote:
>
> There is a canyon wren hanging around the backyard of my house and my 
> neighbor's house.   I heard the unmistakable song as soon as I stepped 
> outside.  Very reddish color, white throat, dark bands on tail, and long 
> bill. Much easier to see in town than high up on a cliff. Singing and 
> calling frequently. It was close by from 11-12.  Has moved a bit farther 
> away now (12:40), but I can still hear it on the block.  I'll try to get a 
> better pic and see if it is a juvenile or adult.
>
>
> Julia Auckland
>
> Denver, Colorado
>
>
> 
>
>
>
>

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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding at Chico Basin Ranch Update

[lmkoitsch]

Hi Everyone!

We are just finishing up our second week of fall bird banding here at Chico 
Basin Ranch (fee area) in Pueblo County with a little over 650 new birds 
banded in total. We are finally starting to see an end to the 'new' (ie, 
not previously banded) Brown Thrashers, having now banded more of them in 
the last two weeks than we have in the last three fall seasons combined! Of 
course, Wilson's Warblers are still the most numerous species that we both 
see and band most days and we had a really nice movement of adult males 
this past Sunday. 

Two big highlights this past week were the male Canada Warbler banded last 
Thursday, which was a first for this station (and super exciting!), and the 
Magnolia Warbler banded today, a bird that we have not banded here in the 
fall since 2012. This past Saturday we also had a handsome Audubon's 
Warbler, a bird that we don't catch as often in the fall as we do in the 
spring. 

We also recaptured a few birds that were banded in previous years, 
including an American Robin and you guessed it, a Brown Thrasher. 

We're up to 45 different species banded this season, and 47 different ones 
caught if you include the two species of hummingbirds that, although we do 
not have a permit to band them, we do still incidentally catch them in our 
nets and check them for bands before releasing. 

The banding station here will be open ever day, weather permitting, until 
October 1st. So please stop by and visit if you're in the area!

Laura-Marie Koitsch
Bird Bander/Ornithologist
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Canyon Wren - Denver County

[Julia Auckland]

There is a canyon wren hanging around in the alley behind my house and 
neighbor's house.  Heard the unmistakable song as soon as I stepped 
outside. Also very reddish color, white throat, dark bands on tail, and 
long bill. Much easier to see in town than high up on a cliff. Hung around 
nearby from 11-12. Singing and calling frequently.  I can still hear it but 
it a bit farther away.

Location is 3845 & 3893 Winona Court.  Alley between Winona and Wolff 
streets, south of 39th.  Easiest access is off of 39th because 38th is too 
busy. 

*My first post didn't seem to work, so leaving the picture off of this one 
in case that was the problem...*

Julia Auckland

Denver, Colorado

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[cobirds] Canyon Wren/Denver County

[Julia Auckland]

There is a canyon wren hanging around the backyard of my house and my 
neighbor's house.   I heard the unmistakable song as soon as I stepped 
outside.  Very reddish color, white throat, dark bands on tail, and long 
bill. Much easier to see in town than high up on a cliff. Singing and 
calling frequently. It was close by from 11-12.  Has moved a bit farther 
away now (12:40), but I can still hear it on the block.  I'll try to get a 
better pic and see if it is a juvenile or adult.


Julia Auckland

Denver, Colorado





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[cobirds] Fwd: Colorado Osprey Tracking - September 14

[Jason Beason]

Greetings,

We are tracking an Osprey from her nest site near the Grand Lake area. We
named her Shadow because her nest was on the shore of Shadow Mountain
Reservoir. We also tracked her in 2013 but the satellite tracking device
fell off just before 2014 spring migration. We were happy to recapture her
again in June of 2016 and see that she is doing fine and now we're tracking her
south to her wintering site again.

Shadow crossed the US/Mexico border sometime between 9 am and noon on
September 12th. As of 9 am this morning the location fix shows her at
Laguna Madre Biosphere Reserve which is the same location where she
over-wintered in 2013-2014 . In the fall of 2013 she flew up the Rio Grande
briefly before settling in at her wintering site. We'll see if she does
that again this fall. This year it took her a total of eight days to travel
the 1,100 miles from her nesting area to arrive at what will likely be the
place where she will spend the winter.

Link to map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1iFHUJIAt1E7CMrmo64b_sKu8Acs

Enjoy!

Jason Beason

Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies (formerly Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory)

39405 Lund Road, Paonia, CO 81428

970-310-5117

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*www.birdconservancy.org *

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[cobirds] Valco Ponds/Rock Canyon, Pueblo Co. 9/13-9/14

[Brandon Percival]

I walked Valco Ponds and Rock Canyon, below Pueblo Reservoir dam, Pueblo
County, this last two mornings.  Both sides of the River.  A total of 83
species for the two days.

14 September highlights (69 species):
Northern Waterthrush - 2
Townsend's Warbler - 5 (one singing!)
Cassin's Vireo - 1
Black Phoebe - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Cassin's Kingbird - 1
Plumbeous Vireo - 2
MacGillivray's Warbler - 1
Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Mexican Duck - 1

13 September highlights (63 species):
American Redstart - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Townsend's Warbler - 2
Cassin's Vireo - 3
Pygmy Nuthatch - 1 (not regular along the river)
Black Phoebe - 1
Ladder-backed Woodpecker - 1
Pink-sided Junco - 1 (my first of the fall)
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1

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Pueblo West, CO

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[cobirds] Update on the Boulder County Brown Booby

[Scott Somershoe]

Put on your seat belts for a little update on the Brown Booby from Boulder
Co.  If you recall, Peter Bandurian photographed an adult female Brown
Booby in Left Hand Canyon on June 22, 2016. The bird was not seen again and
presumed end of the story.  Not so much.  A few days later, the emaciated
booby was found along a roadside near Nederland, Boulder County, CO
(WHAT?!) by someone who works at a wildlife rehab facility and the bird was
transported to a rehab facility.  The bird was getting stronger and
appeared on track for release on a coast somewhere to be determined.
Unfortunately, in spite of excellent care, the bird became sick and died in
mid-August.



The specimen is now with Jeff Stephenson, Collections Manager at the Denver
Museum of Nature and Science and will be preserved as a study skin.
Hopefully we can get some photos of the underwing when it is thawed out for
prep, as this can help us determine if this adult female was from the
Atlantic (Gulf) or Pacific population.  From photos, it appears the bird is
likely from the Atlantic population, but there is not enough evidence to be
certain. With the almost regular pattern of Brown Booby's occurring inland
in the mid-west (OK, NE, IA, AR, inland TX and others) and apparently not
associated with tropical systems, it stands to reason this is an
Atlantic/Gulf bird, but that remains to be determined.



Sad ending to the story, but at least the bird will be preserved here in
Colorado.



Cheers,
Scott Somershoe
Migratory Bird Program, USFWS

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[cobirds] Some Weld County sites today

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

Headed out fairly early for me (while Dr. Mlodinow was eating second meal of 
the day) and thought I would try Eaton Cemetery first.  The traffic along the 
"back way" from Fort Collins to Eaton was horrible.  As Red Foxx used to say, 
"That's urban renewal, for ya".


I arrived at Eaton Cemetery as the armada of mowers left their barn harbor for 
the open green seas.  Forget that.


Crow Valley Campground looked wonderful in the cool mist of this day.  Birds 
were flying in from the north.  Lots of promise.  But as it turned out, I had 
40 species with no rarities.  FOS Townsend's Solitaires (5).  A few pipits flew 
over.  As did an adult Bald Eagle, which I am not sure I've ever seen right 
over the campground (I later found it up at the A #1 on CR124), 1 Dusky 
Flycatcher, a couple pewees, 1 Red-headed Woodpecker, FOS down low 
White-crowned Sparrow, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, many Chipping Sparrows, few 
Brewer's/Clay-colors, 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, heard one Green-tailed Towhee, 
fair number of Wilson's, maybe a half dozen Yellow-rumps, you get the picture.  
No vireos,  no really big flycatchers, no gnatcatchers, no unusual warblers, no 
grosbeaks, no thrushes besides robins, no sapsuckers, very few empids, no 
juncos, very few Spizella sparrows other than Chipping.  A few lingering early 
fall migrants, a few mid to late fall migrants starting to show up.


North of the campground and north of the USFS Work Center along CR77 just south 
of GR96 (where the birding trail starts) was a little group of 5 Cassin's 
Kingbirds sitting on fence wires.  Suspect they were working their way toward 
the outback in the northern part of the Crow Valley Campground complex 
(Mourning Dove Trail, dispersed camping, creek floodplain) where they tend to 
linger for a few days at this time of year.


A#1 on CR124 about a mile or so west of CR77, besides the Bald Eagle on a 
power pole looking to my untrained eye perilously close to electrocution, I had 
a fair number of shorebirds, but nothing unusual (avocets, lb dowitchers, both 
yellowlegs, least sand, solitary sand, snipe, Baird's sand).  Couldn't tell 
what the shorebirds in the muck north of the road were eating but last year at 
this time it was leeches!  Most interesting were Savannah Sparrows on the fence 
wire and a Wilson's Warbler snatching wild sunflower aphids so close beside the 
car I could barely focus the camera.  Just west of there was a dark (taiga?) 
Merlin with prey (blackbird?) that flew off before I could get stopped.


Then got a text about David Wade's discovery of Blackburnian Warbler at 
Prospect Ponds Natural Area in FC and tempted my fate with the Weld County 
sheriff, Nunn police, Wellington police, State Patrol, etc.  No police chase or 
ticket.  Bird chase ended the way many of them do - close but no bird.  Has it 
occurred to you "ticket" and "tick" share four letters, as if the latter could 
possibly be the etymological root of the former?


Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins


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[cobirds] Ruby-throated Hummingbird - YES

[Duane Nelson]

Birders,

The male Ruby-throated Hummingbird I reported from my Las Animas (Bent 
County) feeder yesterday is still present this morning. Birders are 
welcome, provided they contact me first.


Duane Nelson

Las Animas, Bent County CO

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 14 September 2016

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:  Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:  September 14, 2016
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday,  September 14 sponsored by
Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)

NOTE:  The RBA is using the new AOU checklist and the order of the
famillies has changed

Mallard (Mexican) (Larimer)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Clear Creek)
Dusky Grouse (Boulder)
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Logan)
Red-necked Grebe (*El Paso, Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Weld)
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (*Bent)
Snowy Plover (Bent, Washington)
Piping Plover (Bent)
Mountain Plover (Jackson, Kit Carson)
Ruddy Turnstone (Logan)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Arapahoe, Kit Carson, Larimer)
Jaeger spec (Douglas)
LITTLE GULL (Douglas)
WESTERN GULL (Washington)
Thayer's Gull (Washington)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (*Morgan, Washington)
Caspian Tern (*Douglas, *Jefferson, Larimer, Morgan)
Pacific Loon (*El Paso)
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (Montrose)
Green Heron (Otero)
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (Kiowa, Weld)
Mississippi Kite (Adams)
Broad-winged Hawk (Boulder, *Prowers)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Arapahoe)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Boulder, El Paso, Morgan, Washington, Weld, Yuma)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Clear Creek, Mesa, Teller)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Teller)
Least Flycatcher (Larimer, Morgan, Washington, Weld)
Gray Flycatcher (Arapahoe, *Boulder, El Paso, Morgan,  Washington, Weld)
Black Phoebe (Garfield)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Adams, Bent, Kiowa, Lincoln, El Paso, Phillips)
Cassin's Kingbird (Adams, El Paso, Lincoln)
Bell's Vireo (El Paso)
Gray Vireo (Montezuma)
Blue-headed Vireo (Kit Carson, Weld)
Philadelphia Vireo (Logan)
Carolina Wren (Boulder)
Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Arapahoe, Jackson, Weld)
McCown's Longspur (Arapahoe, Larimer, Lincoln, Weld)
Ovenbird (Morgan, Washington)
Northern Waterthrush (Adams, El Paso, Kit Carson, La Plata, Mesa)
Tennessee Warbler (Prowers, Yuma)
Nashville Warbler (Clear Creek, Mesa)
Magnolia Warbler (Bent)
Blackburnian Warbler (*Larimer)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Bent)
Blackpoll Warbler (La Plata, Morgan)
Palm Warbler (El Paso)
Pine Warbler (Cheyenne, Prowers)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (El Paso)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Kit Carson, Weld)
CANADA WARBLER (Bent, Prowers)
Summer Tanager (La Plata)
Northern Cardinal (*Prowers)
Bobolink (Larimer)
Baltimore Oriole (Bent, Kit Carson)

*For locations you are not familiar with (e.g. "Lower Latham"), please
refer to CFO's Colorado County Birding site for directions:
www.coloradocountybirding.org

ADAMS COUNTY:
---On September 11 at Rocky Mt Arsenal NWR, Pablo Quezada reported Cassin's
Kingbird.
---On September 9 a Northern Waterthrush was banded by Meredith McBurney at
the Barr Lake Banding Station.
---On September 8 a Great Crested Flycatcher was banded by Meredith
McBurney at the Barr Lake Banding Station.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On September 11 2 Lewis's Woodpeckers were reported by Jared Del Rosso
on the High Line Canal Trail in Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve in Greenwood
Village.
---On September 10, Loch Kilpatrick reported Gray Flycatcher, 3
Chestnut-collared Longspurs, and 2 McCown's Longspurs on US 36 W of Last
Chance.
---On September 10, Gene Rutherford reporte 6 Chestnut-collared Longspurs
and 2 McCown's Longspurs on US 36 and Calhoun Byers Rd.
---On September 6, Gene Rutherford reported 2 McCown's Longspurs at playa
on CR 185 (Calboun Byers Rd).
---On September 6, Gene Rutherford and Loch Kilpatrick reported 3
Chestnut-collared Lonspurs at playas on Calhoun Byers Rd.
---On September 2, Cheri Phillips reported Buff-breasted Sandpiper at
Quincy Rd and Exmore Road south of Byers.  On September 3, Loch Kilpatrick
refound the Buff-breasted Sandpiper at  Byers Playa (west of CR 181 on
Quincy Rd).  Many Birders saw the Buff-breasted Sandpiper on September 3.
On September 4, Tom Behnfield reported that the Buff-breasted Sandpiper
continues at Byers Playa and several birders have seen it.  On September 5,
Mark Minner-Lee reported Buff-breasted Sandpiper W of CR 181 and N of CR 34
which is not Byers Playa.

BENT COUNTY:
---On September 13, Duane Nelson reported a male RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
is visiting him feeder in Las Animas.
If syou would like to try for the bird, contact Duane a dnelson1 AT
centurytel.net.
---On September 8, Dan Stringer reported a CANADA WARBLER at Hasty CG on
the N border near east end.
---On September 8, Duane Nelson reported a CANADA WARBLER was visiting his
yard in Las Animas.  If you would like
to try for the bird, contact Duane at dnelson1 AT centurytel.net.
---On September 7 at Van's Grove, Duane Nelson reported Chestnut-sided
Warbler.
---On September 7 at "Clayton Point" reached by CR 20 access poin on CR jj
working south and east, Duane Nelson reported Piping Plover and a handful
of Snowy Plovers.
---On September 7 at Hasty CG, Duane Nelson reported Great Crested
Flycatcher.
---On September  7 a