Bewick's Wren, Boulder County, May 16

[Ted Floyd]

Hello, Birders.

Earlier this Saturday morning, May 16, I saw and heard a Bewick wren near the southwest corner of Teller Lake No. 5, Boulder County. I viewed and listened from the trail: Walk straight south from the parking lot of Valmont Road, then the trail makes a 90-degree turn left (east), then a 90-degree turn right (south again); that's where I was, looking north, toward the lake, into the vast grove of Russian olives. Not sure about access here; I didn't leave the trail.

Other birds in the area: singing bobolinks and savannah sparrows aplenty; very few migrants, just a few Audubon warblers and chipping sparrows, 1 clay-colored sparrow, and a "whit" empid (likely dusky or gray).

Sorry for the brevity. I have to deal now with three soccer matches in two counties . . .

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County