Ft Collins (Larimer) and Laramie (Albany, extralimital) 11/7

[Mark Miller]

Hi Everyone,

 

I spent about an hour this morning not seeing the Gyrfalcon along Trilby Road in Ft Collins. I was able to pick out a Lesser Black-backed Gull at the landfill, and the gulls will only get better as the weather gets colder. I spent midday checking the scene of the Red-flanked Bluetail, mainly to see what might have attracted it. I saw the Idaho bird, and it was feeding on flying insects (midges, I think) in riparian thickets. There were insects, even in January. I saw no insects here at all. There were three of us wandering the area, and the only bird of note was a dark Harlan’s Red-tail. The bluetail is surely gone by now. A Sharp-shinned Hawk and a stray cat were in the area, and they can’t have helped matters. Back in Ft Collins, I spent some time in the afternoon wandering the neighborhood around Tradition south of Horsetooth. I did not find any waxwings, or even any robins.

 

Mark Miller

Longmont, CO

[Luke Pheneger]

Gyr is present along Trilby currently

Luke Pheneger
Longmont