Mourning Warbler - Fort Collins

[David Wade]

This afternoon I went looking for the Vaux's Swift Nick K reported yesterday. I struck out on the swift but was delightfully surprised to find a male Mourning Warbler. It was low to the ground of the a cattail marsh at the western end of Lee Martinez Park. I saw it from the concrete path of the Poudre Trail right where a small stream crosses underneath the trail. True to their nature, it was skulky. I saw it for only a few seconds and searched fruitlessly afterwards for over an hour.

David Wade

Fort Collins, CO