Pacific Wren, etc., Boulder County, 1/19/2014

[Ted Floyd]

Hello, Birders.

This Sunday morning, Jan. 19th, I audio-recorded at Walden Ponds, Boulder County, a stub-tailed wren that I believe was a Pacific Wren. Poor, but I believe, diagnostic audio and a sound spectrogram, plus discussion, are available here:

http://xeno-canto.org/165038

(If anybody wants it, I can email the original, higher-quality, WAV-format audio and spectrogram.) 

Anyhow, the bird was at the back (west) end of Sawhill, in a suitably impenetrable tangle of brambles and fallen trees.

Also back in there was a bird that I believe was an "Eastern" (carolinensis) White-breasted Nuthatch; I heard, but did not obtain audio, of this one. And for an unproblematic taxon, I audio-recorded a Golden-crowned Kinglet, it too at the back (west) end of Sawhill; that bird is pretty rare in my experience in the Boulder County lowlands. Also, a couple of Hairy Woodpeckers, Great Blue Herons starting to take an interest in the tall trees (perhaps the rookery will expand again this year?), a somewhat out-of-place drake Hooded Merganser, a vast throng of Black-capped Chickadees, and a Great Horned Owl watching over it all. Pretty birdy back there.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado