Weld County Today
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Steven Mlodinow
Oct 17, 2014, 7:29:24 PM10/17/14
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Greetings All
Today I wandered around SW Weld County
The biggest highlight was an apparent YELLOW PALM WARBLER at Eaton Cemetery (which is just SE of town). The bird was hanging out deep within the cover of conifers, and eventually flew across the street to a private residence. Photos to be posted in a day or two. Also at Eaton Cemetery was a MONTANE DOWNY WOODPECKER with only two white spots on its wing coverts, and a Mountain Chickadee
At Linn Grove Cemetery, a MISSISSIPPI KITE soared southward on thermals. Also there were 2 Mountain Chickadees and a GC Kinglet.
Other highlights included a RN Phalarope at Lower Latham, a THAYER'S GULL at Windsor Reservoir (note that Windsor Lake is nearly birdless), a MEXICAN DUCK female and hybrid male at Stewarts' Pond, and 2 late Cattle Egrets at Union Reservoir.
Good Birding
Steven Mlodinow
Longmont CO
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Today I wandered around SW Weld County
The biggest highlight was an apparent YELLOW PALM WARBLER at Eaton Cemetery (which is just SE of town). The bird was hanging out deep within the cover of conifers, and eventually flew across the street to a private residence. Photos to be posted in a day or two. Also at Eaton Cemetery was a MONTANE DOWNY WOODPECKER with only two white spots on its wing coverts, and a Mountain Chickadee
At Linn Grove Cemetery, a MISSISSIPPI KITE soared southward on thermals. Also there were 2 Mountain Chickadees and a GC Kinglet.
Other highlights included a RN Phalarope at Lower Latham, a THAYER'S GULL at Windsor Reservoir (note that Windsor Lake is nearly birdless), a MEXICAN DUCK female and hybrid male at Stewarts' Pond, and 2 late Cattle Egrets at Union Reservoir.
Good Birding
Steven Mlodinow
Longmont CO
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DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Oct 17, 2014, 8:04:07 PM10/17/14
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Steve et al,
You always seem to shake a few apples from the trees, even when the farmers and calendar told us they've been picked over.
Beating a dead horse, re the Palm Warbler at Eaton, I would wager it was inside the spruce seeking out hackberry psyllid adults moving from the myriad hackberries nearby to overwinter within the spruce crowns. Your description sounds exactly like what the Grandview Cemetery Cape May Warbler did within spruce near hackberries last October here in Fort Collins.
I would remind everyone Linn Grove Cemetery is in Greeley a couple miles east of Highway 85 off E. 18th Street.
Seems to be a definite dispersal of good numbers of Mountain Chickadees (and perhaps Golden-crowned Kinglets) from the mountains to the plains this autumn.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
You always seem to shake a few apples from the trees, even when the farmers and calendar told us they've been picked over.
Beating a dead horse, re the Palm Warbler at Eaton, I would wager it was inside the spruce seeking out hackberry psyllid adults moving from the myriad hackberries nearby to overwinter within the spruce crowns. Your description sounds exactly like what the Grandview Cemetery Cape May Warbler did within spruce near hackberries last October here in Fort Collins.
I would remind everyone Linn Grove Cemetery is in Greeley a couple miles east of Highway 85 off E. 18th Street.
Seems to be a definite dispersal of good numbers of Mountain Chickadees (and perhaps Golden-crowned Kinglets) from the mountains to the plains this autumn.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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