Louisville Feeders - Part 2

[JohnT]

Cobirds:

           More walking, and walking, and walking.  A few notes:  got some comments with the last post about spotted towhees.  Towhees are fairly common in Louisville, Lafayette, Longmont, and north Boulder in the winter, if you know where to look.  Pick neighborhoods where there are dense thickets of cedar bushes, fir, pine and spruce.  The more shrubby evergreens the better.  Watch under the evergreens, especially the bushy ones, and listen for the slurring zzeeeerrrr call. 

 

I stopped at the Brockway Drive feeder again.  I met the one of the owners, who likes birds, and doesn't mind you watching the birds.  If approached, tell her \ him that you heard about the woodpecker from John T.   Some better instructions:  In Louisville, turn west onto Brockway Drive from 76th Street.  Park, and walk about 1 1/2 blocks, just past Cranall Drive.  The feeders are obvious right from the street.  The neighboring yard wtih all the pines and cedar bushes also has feeders, but they cannot be seen.

YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER - immature is still present but hard to see, as it buries itself in dense pine, fir, and spruce trees.  It calls and taps occasionally.

Also at this location:

Brown creeper - 1

Stellar's jay - 1

Blue jay - 2

Red breasted nuthatch - 2

Mountain chickadee - 4

Black capped chickadee - 3

House finch - 14

Eurasian collared dove - 8

Rock dove - 2

Black billed magpie - 2

Northern flicker - 2

Downy woodpecker - 1

House sparrow - 6

Slate colored junco - 2

 

Louisville - Monarch \ McKinley \ Franklin area

A dud - virtually all the feeders are empty.  Here's what I saw around the neighborhood:

House finches - 48

Slate colored junco - 6

Oregon junco - 2

American goldfinch - 1

House sparrows - 55

Red tailed hawk - 1

Black capped chickadee - 16

Blue jay - 6

Northern flicker - 3

Eurasian collared dove - 7

Spotted towhee - 1

 

Louisville - Ord Drive \ Theresa Drive.  One of those "best kept secrets" in Louisville.  Drive up Fairview road to Ord and park.  Walk this route, as you will not see much by driving, and there's no place to park.  Do a loop from Fairview-Ord to Theresa, back to Fairview-Ord and back to your parked car.  Be cordial, friendly, and up front about what you are doing (I'm sure you will) if approached.   I met one of the owners and she gave me some interesting tibits about birding this neighborhood.  Two big feeding stations behind big houses - but neither can be seen very well; spill over of birds into the front yards is obvious.  There is great habitat of fir, pine, cedar, and spruce, creating an artifical eco-system along Ord Drive.   

Prairie falcon - 1 - attacking mapies, who in turn counter-attacked.  The fight went on for 15 minutes.

Black billed magpie - 30

Stellar's jay - 1 (owner reports 2 coming to feeders on a regular basis)

Townsend's solitaire - 1

Blue jay - 6

House finch - 80

Black capped chickadee - 15

Slate colored junco - 6

American robin - 24

Eurpean starling - 44

Eurasian collared dove - 19

Rock dove - 12

One owner with feeders reports 2 great horned owls, and two spotted towhees in her backyard

 

Lousiville - Spring Drive \ Empire Drive \ Paragon Drive - Davidson Mesa area

From Paragon Drive, park in the nearest place you can find and walk.  Do not park in people's front yards.  Some of folks here are very friendly, some are xenophobic.  Treat them all cordially.  Feeders in this neighborhood are hidden - you won't see them by car, you have to walk.  And while you are walking, you can have fun drooling at some of the 2.5 million dollar homes for sale.  

Prairie falcon - 1 - another one

American robin - 55

Northern flicker - 12

House finch - 21

House sparrow - 12

European starling - 40

Eurasian collared dove - 1

Black capped chickadee - 14

Downy woodpecker - 1

Black billed magpie - 11

Common raven - 1

American crow - 2

Townsend's solitaire - 1

 

Louisville - West Aspen Way - behind my house, backyard feeder.  Accipitor species has chased most of the birds away.  Domestic house cats have taken a toll also.  But coyotes in neighborhood are now preying on the cats.  A report last week of a coyote sleeping on my neighbor's doorstep, waiting for the pet cat to be let outside.  Breakfast!

Oregon junco - 8

Slate colored junco - 4

Pink sided junco - 2

House finch - 2

House sparrow - 33

Eurasian collared dove - 2

Blue jay - 4

Northern flicker - 1

Downy woodpecker - 1

Black capped chickadee - 2

Mountain chickade - 2

 

Man my toes are cold!  I KNEW I shoulda stayed in Costa Rica. 

John T (Tumasonis),  Louisville CO,  Boulder County Audubon member