Photos of yesterday's Blue-headed Vireo at Crow Valley (Weld)

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

I just figured out how to add photos within the text of email messages within my new Outlook set-up, so here are a few images of the beautiful Blue-headed Vireo first found by Joe Mammoser yesterday (9/2) at Crow Valley Campground (Weld) about 50-75 yards due north of the antique farm machinery display in the northwest corner of the campground.  These photos show the bird with an adult rough stink bug (genus Brochymena) in its beak (left photo) and in the act of eating a lime green egg cluster of this same insect (other two photos, the partially eaten egg mass is just to the left of the bill tip in the headstand photo for which the bird received a high score from all but the Russian judge).

Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins

[Nathanial Warning]

Very commendable shots Dave. The Russian judge was disgruntled from the doping scandal, and also upset that we stole their olive trees!