Thanks to all who posted the extraordinary glut of birds at Chatfield. Spurred by your postings, Urling & I went over to Chatfield late yesterday afternoon -- and the quantity of birds along the paved roads staggered us.
As advertised, hundreds of Lark Buntings, Chipping, Lark, & Vesper Sparrows, cowbirds, 80 or so Yellow-headed Blackbirds. 86 Western Kingbirds, most in the middle of the road, 66 Mtn. Bluebirds, ditto. 28 Willets, 7 American Pipits. Piles of swallows cruising the lake.We noticed that the flocks concentrated where asphalt grows -- very few on gravel surfaces, except at the Model Airplane field. At home, a mini-fallout. Most striking, Urling counted ten male & one female Lazuli Buntings on the ground at the same time. What a stunning show! Plus: 22 annoying Brown-headed Cowbirds and 4 annoying magpies that drive away the other birds. 6-8 Black-headed Grosbeaks, 1-2 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Chipping Sparrows, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows. Say's Phoebe, American Goldfinch. One Bullock's Oriole that figured out how to insert himself into the suet feeder cage. Hugh Kingery Franktown, CO -- 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 post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/8D13C168221E2BD-6D0-21D41%40webmail-m138.sysops.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
