My dog and I took a walk this morning at Willow Spring Open Space & Holly Park in west Centennial (Arapahoe). I hoped to find one of those Cassin's Kingbirds that everyone's reporting, and these two spots seemed as good as any in the area for them. Nope, at least not today. But a half dozen Mountain Bluebirds were a nice consolation; two were at Holly Park and the others were along the eastern edge of Willow Spring. These were my first fall Mountain Bluebirds in the Centennial area, and also my first of these birds at both locations. At Willow Spring, there were also a half dozen or so White-crowned Sparrows. I had my first Townsend's Solitaire of the season there as well, though Cynthia Madsen and Ben Sampson reported them in Centennial in late-September. A single hummer flew over me at one point, too high and backlit to even hazard an ID.
Back at home, no sign of the Green-tailed Towhee that had taken the place of the Golden-crowned Sparrow. I may spend the next hour or so working outside, in hopes of those Boulder-area Sandhill Cranes cutting a bit farther east on their southward voyage. - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, 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/41727d6e-5987-443d-bbf1-9b6433de477d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
