Louisville and environs - yellow bellied sapsucker

[JohnT]

Cobirds:

            The doctors and physical therapist told me to start walking; so I walk.  Four months post knee surgery on left knee.  Right knee still needs to be operated on.  Will I ever climb a 14er again?

            So, a lot of walking today going to many of the best feeding stations in parts of Louisville.  Uncommon birds listed in CAPS.  This is the time to fill your feeders;  top them off in the morning and evening.  The cold weather will cause birds to swarm your feeders and possibly bring in unusal birds.  Use Google to map our the below descriptors. 

 

Marble Court and Arlington Drive (unincorporated Boulder?) and surrounding area.

There is a well filled, well maintained set of feeders at this intersection.  There are almost always goldfinches here.

Goldfinch - 18

House finch - 33

Black capped chickadee - 4

Spotted - 2 (one on Andrews Way)

American robin - 50

Blue jay - 6 

Slate colored junco - 6

Black billed magpie - 8

Many of the feeders on Andrews Way are not filled - which is a shame, as this was a high feeding area.

 

Fairview drive: Louisville.  park near 76th and Fairway and walk up the hill until you hit open space.

A few feeders, half full:

Red tailed hawk - 1

Northern flicker - 2

Spotted towhee - 2

American crow - 1

House finch - 15

American robin - 44

Eurpean starling - 56

Black billed magpie - 12 - some eating out of feeders, and on suet feeders

Slate colored junco - 6

 

Brockway (east) / Ridge Road / O'Connor Road and surrounding area, Louisville.  This is east of 76th street:

Two points of interest:

1)  A set of feeders on Brockway near Ridge Road - the house has a double set of mailboxes shaped like a bird house, and a "0" on the house address (the other numbers have fallen off.  Lots of birds here:

Spotted tohwee - 6  all at this address

Mountain chickadee - 4 

Red breasted nuthatch - 3

Black capped chickadee - 4

White breasted nuthatch - 1

House finches - 21

And nearby - rock doves, magpies, robins, and house sparrows

2)  A large crabapple tree on Brockway near 76th - east of 76th

American robins - swarming under and on the tree for berries - over 70

European starling - 50 +  same location

Cedar waxwing - 5 - same location

 

Brockway (west). Louisville.  Now cross over 76th and walk down Brockway going west for 1 1/2 blocks.  Look on your left (south)

Feeders very active with:

Erusian collared dove - 14

Slate colored junco - 12

Mountain chickadee - 4

Black capped chickadee - 6

Pink sided junco - 11

House finch - 29

YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER - tapping one of the two large pine trees adjoing the feeders in the same location.  This was an immature bird, beginning to show some red in the head (barely) and yellow on the breast.  

Also in the vicinity:  

Northern flicker - 3

Blue jay - 2

Black billed magpie - 6

Rock dove - 14

Canada goose - 40 - fly over

 

Roosevelt and Aspen Way (near Comminity Park)  Louisville.  (note:  there are several Aspen Ways in Louisville)

This is a well maintained feeder(s) that's been kept full for months. 

YELLOW SHAFTED FLICKER - male 1 - on the suet feeder

Goldfinch - 14

House finch - 36

Pink sided junco - 4

Slate colored junco - 6

Black capped chickadee - 4

White breated nuthatch - 1

 

Coal Creek Trail near Dutch Creek Park - Louisville

Feeders are in backyards adjoining the trail.  Best drive in, is off Cherry Street, park on side street and pick up the Coal Creek Trail adjoing the Golf Course.  Walk east away from the golf course.  The feeders are at a house where a relief of a raptor is on the back of the house.  This is a very well maintained group of feeders and keep full all the time.

Goldfinch - 12

White breasted nuthatch - 1

Pink sided junco - 7

Slate colored junco - 12

House finch - 33

Black capped chickadee - 4

 

Lake Park neighborhood bike path and vicinity - Louisville - park off Lafayette Street near Lake Park open space

Adjoining Lake Park there are three houses (backyards) that all have active feeders.

Downy  woodpecker - 1 - the only one all day

White breasted nuthatch - 1

Pink sided junco - 14

Oregon junco - 6

Slate colored junco - 22

House finch - 37

Black capped chickadee - 3

Also in the vicinity - flickers, mapies, robins, blue jays, and house sparrows

The lake has a bubbler, so there are a few ring necked ducks and mallards on it. 

 

My nose is cold.  I KNEW I shoulda gone to Hawaii. 

'Later -   John T (Tumasonis) of Louisville CO, Boulder Audubon member