The LUCY'S WARBLER, first seen this cold, windy, sideways-snow-for-a-time morning about 10:00am was seen by four other people (Cole Wild, Rachel Hopper, Joe Mammoser, and Josh Bruening) in mid-afternoon.
There are four entrances into Eaton Cemetery off of CR39 (about 1/2 mile south of CR74 se of Eaton). The bird seemed to stay in the trees that fall between the middle two entrances, from the west edge of the cemetery to about the cemetery center. If you take the third entrance from the north into the cemetery, near the center of the cemetery is a big trash barrel tied to a reddish post. Just ne of the trash can intersection is a big Northern Hackberry sparsely leafed out. That seems to be the tree the bird comes back to from time to time. When not in that tree, it works all the way west to the edge, always seemingly staying pretty high in deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out (mostly hackberries, but also linden and honeylocust, maybe some Siberian elms). There are good hackberries all around the above-mentioned "main" haunt. I would not ignore those, including hackberries to the east and southeast. The thing is very tiny, short-tailed, all whitish underneath, gray above. I never did see its rusty rump but did see the small rusty patch on the crown a couple times. It has a noticeable eyering. Other birds that could be confused with the Lucy's also at the cemetery today were at least two Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, at least three Orange-crowned Warblers, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and a zillion Chipping Sparrows. Other birds seen today (total of 37 species) were: Nashville Warbler (seen in the hackberry mentioned as being the Lucy's "favorite") Yellow Warbler Red-eyed Vireo (at various places, both in deciduous trees and junipers) Swainson's Thrush Chimney Swifts (at least 10) Peregrine Falcon Clay-colored Sparrows (several) Brewer's Sparrows (few) Common Poorwill (flushed by Rachel from near a headstone and later photographed on the southernmost e-w cemetery road) Empid (never could get a good handle on this bird but it appeared crested, very green above, and might well have been an Alder (had a noticeable eyering but not wide or overly tear-dropped, wash of yellow below, extension what I would call moderate - just don't know on this one) Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- 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/SNT148-W50D87AFEFF0D00C62F4FEAC1DB0%40phx.gbl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.