Red-eyed Vireo at South Mesa Trail Head Boulder County

[Lonny Frye]

With the Boulder Bird Club Wednesday Roadrunners, I found a strangely silent Red-eyed Vireo foraging in the cottonwoods on the west side of the Plooster Path (the small loop just across the first bridge and before the main bridge) at the start of the South Mesa Trail just north of the parking area, Eldorado Springs road. There were many Chats and Lazuli Buntings present as well. The birds are starting to have normal numbers as the tiny leaves emerge on the shrubs and trees.

Lonny Frye