Re: [cobirds] Boulder County, Nov. 26th
COBirders, I went in search of the Pacific Wren southwest of McCall Lake between Lyons and Longmont today at 1:30. Within seconds of peering over the side of the bridge, the bird popped out of the underbrush next to the river. It had a good look at the bird at about 30ft for over 3 minutes. This time the bird was on the south side of the bridge instead of the north like Ted had noted: http://tinyurl.com/ylystby Lat: 40.195943N, Lon: 105.207704W While watching the bird, it called twice, both of which were single alarm notes. I have concern though that the calls I heard were not consistent with Western Winter Wren but more likely of the Eastern Winter Wren. The calls were chunkier than what I heard on Nathan's website for Pacific Wren. Do Pacific and Winter Wren calls overlap at all? Is it possible this bird is a hybrid? Are alarm calls sharper and chunkier than the calls noted on Nathan's website? I have all sorts of questions about this bird that currently confuse me. When viewing the wren, it looked really good for a Western Winter Wren, with little barring on its sides, the lightest color being on the throat, and really dark brown all over the bird with few spots of whitish/gray. The supercilium remained just as wide behind the eye as in front, but I am not sure if this is a characteristic of Western Winter Wren or not. It seems to be based on Sibley's drawings of the birds, but I make no conclusions based on one drawing. Overall, this bird was really easy to find and didn't really care that I was present. Most Winter Wrens (Eastern) that I have seen are super skulky where you can step on them and they don't even move, so this bird was a dramatically different experience for me. It was hanging around with Chickadees while I was there. Good luck if others go out chasing this bird. Bryan Guarente Instructional Designer The COMET Program University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
[cobirds] Boulder County, Nov. 26th
Hello, Birders. Hannah and Andrew and I birded around Boulder County this Thanksgiving afternoon, Thursday, Nov. 26th. At the point where the St. Vrain River crosses 63rd Street, we saw--and more to the point heard--a Pacific Wren. The bird was with a flock of Pink-sided and Slate-colored Juncos. It stayed pretty tight in a tangle of understory vegetation extending from 40.196155N, 105.207924W to 40.196143N, 105.208173W. The bird called constantly and responded well to pishing. Learn all about the Pacific Wren at Nathan Pieplow's blog: http://tiny.cc/7Z2vl. It's a cool bird, it's surely a valid species, and its call doesn't sound much like a Winter Wren's. (I don't agree that its call note sounds like a Wilson's Warbler--or any other warbler, really. To my ears, the call of Pacific Wren sounds more like the call of Carolina Wren.) By the way, I actually think there were two Pacific Wrens back in there; sure sounded like it, anyhow. (The habitat is wonderful.) But I never saw more than the one bird at a time. Over at Lagerman Reservoir, we saw the Long-tailed Duck discovered last week by Bill Schmoker. And at McIntosh Lake, we saw a few Bonaparte's Gulls still lingering, a bunch of moribund gizzard shad, and Nick Komar and Cole Wild. --- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Check out Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine --- _ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009v2 -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
