Cobirders: All winter and spring has been an irruptive time for the RED CROSSBILL at Genesee Park (I-70, Exit 254, south side of highway 2 miles to Group Picnic area and Flagpole). Today we witnessed one adult male feeding one young. Listen for them, and perhaps you will see them in flight or feeding in Ponderosa Pine or other trees here at 8000+ feet. I've seen them every day this spring that I am in the Park.
Posted by CFO Member Kathanne Lynch of Genesee Mountain, Golden, CO. Genesee Mountain Park, Jefferson, Colorado, US Jun 11, 2016 9:10 AM - 11:20 AM Protocol: Traveling by Foot 1.5 mile(s) Comments: Audubon Society of Greater Denver Field Trip. Mary Keithler organizer. Kathanne Lynch leader. Walked around Group picnic area at 8000 feet, and hiked up Summit Trail to top of Genesee Mountain at Flagpole (8264'). 69-78 degrees, BF 2-3 wind, Mostly Clear. 20 species (+1 other taxa) Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) 10 Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) 1 calling, not seen Western Wood-Pewee (Contopus sordidulus) 5 Cordilleran Flycatcher (Empidonax occidentalis) 4 Empidonax sp. (Empidonax sp.) 1 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1 heard and not seen Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) X Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) 9 Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) 1 White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 1 Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) 9 Carrying food (several times) into nest cavity in dead Ponderosa Pine. House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 9 vocal Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) 4 American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 7 Vocal. Visible. Active. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) 2 Audubon's seen. Calling. Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 3 Dark-eyed Junco (Gray-headed) (Junco hyemalis caniceps) 5 Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) 1 seen by part of group House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 3 Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) 9 On Ponderosa Pine and firs. Vocal. One adult male feeding young. Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) 6 Heard and seen in flight. View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S30186699 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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/d37e5ac6-e9a3-46f6-8975-c39a74e7d395%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
