Montane stuff in eastern Boulder County

[Ted Floyd]

Hey, everybody. Folks have been posting here about a late-summer movement east of the mountains of red-breasted nuthatches, and we've been noticing it here in the Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, area, too. Go outside for half an hour, and you'll more likely than not hear one of the little buggers yank...yank...yank'ing away.

And it's not just red-breasted nuthatches.

Friday morning, Sept. 8, I was surprised by a Williamson's sapsucker along Boulder Creek near 75th Street; yesterday morning, Sat., Sept. 9, a pygmy nuthatch was jabbering away from a shade tree at one of the residences just west of Greenlee Preserve; and this Sunday morning, Sept. 10, near the Centennial Trail, one or two brown creepers were going at it in the planted spruces at the terminus of Old Tale Road.

(The pygmy nuthatch was bird species #240 for me at the Waneka/Greenlee complex.)

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

[Bart Deferme]

I've had two or three Red-breasted Nuthatches daily at my feeders for the last three weeks (Quincy Reservoir, Arapahoe County). Before they arrived, I had never seen them here. No Pygmy's, but White-breasted Nuthatches are regulars too.

They're great to watch: fearless of the much larger and more numerous House Finches, they swoop in and alternate between the insects hidden in the wood of my deck, the seeds from the feeder, and the pine cones of my ponderosa pine.

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[Ted Floyd]

And so it continues...

This morning at Greenlee Preserve, eastern Boulder County, I was surprised by a flyby of an evening grosbeak, only my second ever at the site. Meanwhile, the planted spruces at Angevine Middle School, eastern Boulder County, were overrun this morning by petulant red-breasted nuthatches.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

[Ted Floyd]

And now a mountain chickadee in the maple tree out front. (Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, Monday, Sept. 11.)

I'm half-expecting a ptarmigan to strut down South Fork Drive... ;-)

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

[Karen Drozda]

I have Red- breasted in my "yard" in Denver on a regular basis year 'round. I hear one lately that must be a juvenile. His vocalization pitch is much higher that the others that I hear. Guess they are here as I live so close to Fairmount Cemetery with all the diverse tree species.

On Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 1:50:54 PM UTC-6, Ted Floyd wrote: