Hi all
Firstly: Season's Greetings and best wishes for a healthy and wildlife-filled 2013 Great to be back in Colorado - on+off for the next 5 months.. hope to enjoy your company soon at some great spot or another.. Also, I'm very much looking forward to joining the Aspen CBC this coming Sunday, Dec 30th and hope that it will be the best turnout ever - can I encourage anyone to come?? Now to the subject line.. Redpolls! Along with my nephew from Michigan, Jacob, I visited the Aspen Village trailer park yesterday (by highway 82, just SE of Snowmass Canyon), following up on reports of a Common Redpoll there earlier in December. Initially we staked out the feeder that it had been seen at previously, but gave up after 20minutes, having seen lots of House Sparrows, House Finches, Western Scrub-Jays, a Steller's Jay and a couple of Juncos but nothing else. As we drove slowly away however, I spotted some birds in a large cottonwood at the opposite end of the park, and bingo - there were around 15 Common Redpolls along with some American Goldfinches. Good job they were in the Aspen CBC count circle, and being seen on Thursday before count day on Sunday, they just fall into "count-week"! "Down-valley" there's been a Northern Shrike (juv) around the Dakotas sub-division in Carbondale, and 2-3 Rough-legged Hawks in the vicinity of Catherine Store (Carbondale - Garfield Counnty) Good birding all! Dick Filby Carbondale, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
