Yellow-throated Warbler-Auraria Campus (Denver)

[Doug Ward]

As I hadn’t seen a post out here on COBirds about the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER that has been down on the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver (Denver Co.) for the past couple of weeks, thought I would drop a note if you don’t happen to troll eBird for your rare bird information.  We were in the area today (Sat., 21 Feb.’26) so decided to try and did eventually find the bird.  Started looking in the pines around the parking lots along Speer Blvd near Kalamath/Champa where it has been found most regularly, but no luck.  Then thought we should check the pristine wilderness of the median “park” wedged between Speer, Colfax, and Kalamath which has a small stand of conifers.  Just a tad noisy, but as luck would have it, the Yellow-throated chipped a couple of times letting us know our decision to brave the traffic was about to pay off.  If you do try for this guy, plan on checking the larger area if the main spots don’t produce as I would think it should stick around until migration.  The YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERs it has apparently been hanging out with weren’t that active today, but did see a few.

 

Off to bed now as puck drop is pretty early tomorrow.  Good luck to Team USA and also to you if you try for the warbler.

 

Good Birding,

Doug

Currently Denver