Most years, many, many gulls head west-east at dawn and east-west at dusk
over University & Arapahoe (approximately) in Centennial. This year, the
movements are astounding. At dusk this evening, thousands and thousands of
gulls -- mostly Ring-bills I'm sure but perhaps some Herrings and others
I believe it was Wednesday that I started hearing Black-capped Chickadees
start up their well-known, two note songs around Centennial (Arapahoe). I
also noted them seeming increasingly intolerant of others in both my yard
and in neighborhood trees. A lot of active chasing going on right now.
Haven't birded much and have mostly been watching my Centennial (Arapahoe
Co.) yard. A trio of Lesser Goldfinches have been regular over the past
week or so. It's largely because I hung a thistle feeder this year. (I
don't usually.) But I've also seen the birds visiting the Green Rabbitbrush
Dave's post reminded me of an excellent book on this -- Bernd Heinrich's
*Winter
World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival*. The book is largely written about
northeastern species, but briefly addresses our poorwill's torpor. Heinrich
makes a star of Maine's Golden-crowned Kinglets in the book.
I was fortunate to meet Joe back in 2015ish, when he took an interest in
birds I was reporting around Cheesman Park in Denver. Ever the county
lister, he was and remained. I think it was a Red Crossbill flock that drew
him north to Cheesman from the Wash Park area.
I was glad to meet him, for
I've never seen more than a family of Swainson's Hawks at a time, so I was
surprised to encounter a dozen+ Swainson's Hawks over Holly Park in
Centennial (Arapahoe County) this morning. From a distance, I took them for
Turkey Vultures, the only raptors I see riding thermals in flocks locally.
To add to this: yesterday evening, I had a *Western Wood-Pewee* in my
backyard and walked out my front door to a *Rock Wren*. This was just my
second encounter with the latter in my yard.
- Jared Del Rosso
Centennial, CO
On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 2:49:57 PM UTC-6 jared.d...@gmail.com
An earlyish *Green-tailed Towhee* in my Centennial yard this morning, along
with a yard first *Eastern Kingbird*. I don't come upon the latter all that
often in Centennial, so this was a real treat. A flock of a dozen Cedar
Waxwing swung through this afternoon. A *Mountain Chickadee* first
I've had almost nightly sightings of nighthawks, including of flocks
between 25-40 birds in the Centennial / Greenwood Village area since August
2. Last night, I had two birds fly north over my yard around 6:50 PM, a
flock of 29 come back south over the yard about 10 minutes later, 22 return
in the area?
- Jared
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 4:07:32 PM UTC-6 jared.d...@gmail.com wrote:
> This summer, some local birders and I attempted to document non-migratory
> nighthawks in west Centennial (Arapahoe County). Why? Because. (Because I
> heart this bird, because eBird doesn'
This summer, some local birders and I attempted to document non-migratory
nighthawks in west Centennial (Arapahoe County). Why? Because. (Because I
heart this bird, because eBird doesn't contain many late-June through
mid-July reports of the bird in west Centennial, because this bird's
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