Unusual "bird" sitting in a nest - Boulder County

[Adrian Lakin]

On Thursday last week I was birding at Walden/Sawhill Ponds in Boulder county when I spotted an unusual looking bird in the old GHOW nest in the SW corner of Sawhill. I was looking at a pair of GHOW sitting calmly in a tree about 100 yards away from the nest I've seen them use in previous years when I turned around to look at the nest. Sitting proudly in the nest was a Bobcat. I have no idea if the GHOW were using that nest this season or not, but as I spent more than 3 hours in that area and neither of them moved to another nest site, it is looking ominous that the Bobcat might've taken the chicks if they had hatched or the eggs.

Rolf Hertenstein said the Bobcat could be a FOS Catbird!

Here's a link to some photo's I took of the Bobcat and the GHOW...

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUQmz48

Adrian Lakin,

Mead, CO