Grandview Cemetery-Fort Collins-Larimer

[Josh Bruening]

All,

I birded Grandview from about 330 to 5pm this afternoon hoping that I might catch the Blackburnian which I missed while hiking the Laurel Highlands trail in PA last week into the weekend. It is still gone it seems.  My consolation for missing it here in Colorado was getting to see several excellent warblers there including two Blackburnians.  Much of what was at Grandview today has already been reported.  I had 22 species in that time which I thought was pretty fantastic.  Here is my list with a few goodies.

Sandhill Crane-20 surfing thermals.  Radically, of course.

Red-breasted Nuthatch-I stopped counting.  At least 20

White-breasted Nuthatch-1

Pygmy Nuthatch-1

Brown Creeper-6+

Mountain Chickadee-2

Black-capped Chickadee-many

Dark-eyed Junco-4 pink-sided

Ruby-crowned Kinglet-at least 3

Yellow-rumped Warbler-Three dozen easy all over the cemetery

Townsend's Warbler-1 male in what I've called the Cape May Hackberry in section E since that bird showed up in 2013.

Plumbeous Vireo-same Hackberry.  This one surprised me.  Figure it was quite late but haven't plugged it in to Ebird yet.  I realized that its not a species I see all that often in autumn.  I tried to make it a Cassin's or a Blue-headed but this bird was gray and white with no twinge of yellow anywhere.

Orange-crowned Warbler-1-same Hackberry

House Finch

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Red-tailed Hawk-2 flying over

American Robin

Great Horned Owl in the giant Locust tree

Blue Jay

European Starling

Chipping Sparrow-small group

Hackberrys and Elms were where the vast majority of activity was.  

Bird is the word y'all!

Josh Bruening

Fort Collins