Yesterday, I led a small DFO group up the Fowler Trail to the Boulder Canal and intersection of the Fowler with the Spring Brook and Goshawk Ridge Trails. We all saw an adult No. Goshawk perched high in a dead tree on Goshawk Ridge! After sitting there long enough for all of us to see it, it left but then came back with prey and landed in the tree briefly. It left before we could see what the prey was.
On the way back almost to where we had parked on Boulder County Rd. 67, we saw two sapsuckers in a small tree in a gully east of the trail. They were scolding and chasing each other. One was an immature(?) female Red-naped(?) Sapsucker and the other, a juvenile. We assumed that they were the same species. The reasons I decided on an immature(?) Red-naped (rather than Yellow-bellied or adult Red-naped) female: narrow white supercilium, relatively wide black eye line, faint red blotch on the nape, and a touch of white on the red chin. The images we have (taken by Linda Broeren) of the bird do not show a black breast shield (bec. taken from the side), and I do not remember the bird having one or, if so, perhaps a thin one. I hope someone can get there, see the birds, and take better images. I'm sorry I was unable to post this yesterday. You can e-mail me privately for the two images. Paula Hansley Louisville -- 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/CANF-7hoXGvVGGjMpa5vU5SYZ1Ajhwd%3DhQGioT9f5cEA6Ap74Tw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
