1½ Greenlee lifers for me today, Nov. 21 (Boulder Co.)
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Ted Floyd
Nov 21, 2024, 9:43:31 PM11/21/24
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Hey, all.
With the rather blustery weather, not to mention a hard freeze overnight, there was some turnover in the bird community in the "Greater Greenlee Ecosystem," comprising Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Waneka Lake, & Hecla Pond, earlier today, Thurs., Nov. 21.
In a good pulse of activity around mid-day, these birds:
• snow goose
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/626542253
Otherwise, the usual suspects: tons, literally, of cackling geese; a drake hooded merganser still hanging on; northern flicker intergrades; prime bushtits; and a brown creeper. eBird checklist, if you're interested:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S203194349
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder Co.
With the rather blustery weather, not to mention a hard freeze overnight, there was some turnover in the bird community in the "Greater Greenlee Ecosystem," comprising Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Waneka Lake, & Hecla Pond, earlier today, Thurs., Nov. 21.
In a good pulse of activity around mid-day, these birds:
• snow goose
• greater white-fronted goose
• winter wren
• nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow
• white-throated sparrow
The winter wren was a Greenlee lifer for me, #262, if anybody's keeping track. The nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow also was my first for the site. I guess some people don't count that taxon. But did you know that the white-crowned sparrow is thought to be paraphyletic, with golden-crowned sparrow nested within the "species"? So...yeah. If you go looking for the nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow tomorrow, it looks like this:
• nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow
• white-throated sparrow
The winter wren was a Greenlee lifer for me, #262, if anybody's keeping track. The nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow also was my first for the site. I guess some people don't count that taxon. But did you know that the white-crowned sparrow is thought to be paraphyletic, with golden-crowned sparrow nested within the "species"? So...yeah. If you go looking for the nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow tomorrow, it looks like this:
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/626542253
Otherwise, the usual suspects: tons, literally, of cackling geese; a drake hooded merganser still hanging on; northern flicker intergrades; prime bushtits; and a brown creeper. eBird checklist, if you're interested:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S203194349
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder Co.
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