CSR, El Paso Co, Friday, and Mississippi Kite, Thursday.

[Steven Brown]

HEY COBirders,

A beautiful, calm, clear, quiet morning, and initially a lot of bird movement at Clear Spring Ranch this morning.  After about 8:30, activity dropped off considerably, except for the emphatically singing Yellow Warblers, Com Yellowthroats, and Red-winged Blackbirds.

16 birds banded today. FOS MacGillivray’s Warbler (SYm), FOS W Wood-pewee (ASY), FOS Blue Grosbeak (ASYf), more male chats, catbirds, and Brown Thrashers, and the beginnings of female Orange-crowned and Yellow Warblers starting to show up.

Additionally, Susan Craig asked me to pass on that she and some other shrike banders saw a Mississippi Kite over Fountain yesterday,  (H 85 and Main) with good, long binocular views as it circled low over town, before disappearing into the cottonwoods.

Happy Migration,

Steve Brown

Colo Spgs