PERC Gardens at CSU in Fort Collins (Larimer) on 11/17

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

This is a couple days old but decided it might be of enough interest to mention.  On Tuesday at the Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC) gardens north of W. Lake Street in the southwest corner of the CSU campus in Fort Collins I had a small flock of Bushtits feeding mostly in cranberrybush viburnums maybe 50 yards north of Lake Street.  This area is west of the main north-south sidewalk that goes thru what remains of the gardens (due to our constructing a new football stadium).  At least one of the birds in this flock of about 15 was a form I don't think I've ever seen in Colorado, a "black-eared" (see a field guide, reportedly found most often in the mountains of the Southwest).  I have a pic if anyone wants to see it.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

[Charles Hundertmark]

Many years ago Barbara McKnight, one of my early mentors in New Mexico, banded a juvenile Black-eared Bushtit as a juvenile in Cedar Crest, NM. Subsequently, the bird was recaptured by Barbara as a Common Bushtit with brown auriculars. Her publication of this finding was one of the key factors in lumping of the Black-eared and Common Bushtits, causing many birders to loose a species from their life lists.

Chuck Hundertmark

 

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