Myrtle Warbler, House Wren, Osprey, baby GHO, and egg'-laying Osprey in Boulder County

[Kat Bradley-Bennett]

This morning (Tuesday), one Myrtle Warbler was hunting in a stand of honeysuckles that largely survived this past Arctic blast, just east of Blue Mountain Elementary School in west Longmont.  An hour later, I discovered a House Wren in my apple tree in west Longmont.

While monitoring the Osprey platform on N 75th for the City of Longmont yesterday, I scanned a nearby grove of cottonwoods for Great Horned Owls and found a very active owlet being fed a large rodent by its mother. The chick doesn't have much tail yet, but is using its wings to lift enough to hop through the branches of the trees.

The Osprey was laying eggs yesterday, by the way.

Kat Bradley-Bennett

Longmont