DFO presents Nathan Pieplow on August 22

[Sharon]

Denver Field Ornithologists monthly programs return on Monday, August 22 at 7 PM with featured speaker Nathan Pieplow. His presentation, The Best Bird Songs You Never Heard, will be delivered via Zoom. Register here:  HERE

Pieplow's presentation will delve into the surprising world of bird songs that are hidden, underappreciated, or flat out denied to exist. "What if I told you," Pieplow asks, "that  cormorants, vultures and House Sparrows were some of the most accomplished avian singers in North America?" What? Join DFO to find out more.

Pieplow is well-known to birders in the front range. His day job is as a professor at CU Boulder. He is the author of the Colorado Birding Trail website and of two volumes of Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds. He is the former editor of CFO's Colorado Birds journal.  

[Ted Floyd]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:28 AM Sharon <sharont...@gmail.com> wrote:

Denver Field Ornithologists monthly programs return on Monday, August 22 at 7 PM with featured speaker Nathan Pieplow. His presentation, The Best Bird Songs You Never Heard, will be delivered via Zoom. Register here:  HERE

You mean the ones I can't hear anymore because they're too high-pitched? ;-)
(For example, the middle part of the Costa's Hummingbird's song. I can't hear that anymore.)

Anyhow, I love this topic! Here's a recent entry of mine in that category:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/473018151

The lovely warbling at, especially, the 22-sec. mark. I had no idea Great Horned Owls make that sound.

Nature surprises us constantly. To wit:

Earlier this cool, wet morning in Grand Co., I watched in amazement and horror as a southwestern red squirrel, Tamiasciurus fremonti, gruesomely captured, subdued, and eventually killed a Belted Kingfisher. Wha?? I got a coupla quick pics, but quickly backed off and let nature take its course. BOC attached/below. Sorry for the grainy quality; it was drizzling and dark in the spruce-fir woods at close to 10,000 ft. MSL when I saw that kingfisher flopping about the understory trying to get away from the squirrel, eventually to no avail.

Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder Co.