Boulder County - Ovenbirdz

[Michael Morton]

Yesterday I heard four separate Ovenbirds singing away on the Skunk Creek Trail in City of Boulder Open Space.  This morning I heard three of them in the exact same spots.  They are impossible to miss if you take the Skunk Creek trail from Deer Valley and walk back to where the trail hits the ponderosas and starts to switchback (just underneath the Mesa Trail).  They have been there since Sunday (that I noticed) and thanks to Christian for identifying them from my audio recording since I had never seen nor heard one in my life!  Do they normally settle in around here or are they only passing through?

Michael Morton

Boulder, CO