Black-throated Grey Warbler-Bear Ck Greenbelt; JeffCo

50 views
Skip to first unread message

Doug Ward

unread,
May 15, 2021, 1:03:33 PM5/15/21
to cobirds

While disappointingly a little slow this morning (Sat., 15 May’21), did manage to pull out a nice male BLACK-THROATED GREY WARBLER at the Bear Creek Greenbelt (Estes-Wadsworth section), Jefferson County.  He was with a small group of YELLOW-RUMPEDs (both “Audubon’s” & “Myrtles”) and an ORANGE-CROWNED in the “Willow Alley” which is a hundred meters or so east of the pedestrian bridge near the Estes parking lot, and north of the creek.

 

It’s actually never disappointing to be out, and while it was slow for mid-May, did have some migrants in addition to the locals including WARBLING VIREO, LEAST and HAMMOND’S FLYCATCHERS, a couple of first of season (for me) WESTERN-WOOD PEWEEs, and good numbers of BULLOCK’S ORIOLEs.  Also fun was seeing some breeding activity including a couple of adorable GREAT HORNED OWL fledglings in one of the usual spots, a hen WOOD DUCK disappear into a snag hole quite a ways up in a cottonwood, and a hen HOODED MERGANSER checking out a few potential snag sites herself.

 

So always good to be out.  If you’d like any further detail on the Black-throated Grey, please let me know separately.

 

Good Birding,

Doug

Denver

 

15 May 2021  Bear Creek Greenbelt (Estes-Wadsworth); Jefferson Co., CO

Canada Goose – 10a 8juv

Wood Duck – 1f @ nest

Gadwall – 1m 1f

Mallard – 15

Hooded Merganser – 1f

Eurasian Collared-Dove – 3

Mourning Dove – 9

Broad-tailed Hummingbird – 1 ho

Killdeer – 1

Spotted Sandpiper – 1

Double-crested Cormorant – 10

Snowy Egret – 1

Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1i

Red-tailed Hawk – 1

Great Horned Owl – 1a 2juv

Downy Woodpecker – 3

Northern Flicker – 10 “Red-shafted”

American Kestrel – 1

Western Wood-Pewee – 2

Least Flycatcher – 1

Hammond’s Flycatcher – 1

Say’s Phoebe – 1

Warbling Vireo – 1

Blue Jay – 4

Black-billed Magpie – 3

American Crow – 2

Black-capped Chickadee – 8

Northern Rough-winged Swallow – 3

Violet-green Swallow – 10

Barn Swallow – 3

Cliff Swallow – 25

Bushtit – 2

White-breasted Nuthatch – 1 ho

House Wren – 12

European Starling – 20

Gray Catbird – 7

American Robin – 15

House Finch – 2

Pine Siskin – 3

American Goldfinch – 1

Song Sparrow – 3

Bullock’s Oriole – 11

Red-winged Blackbird – 25

Brown-headed Cowbird - 10

Common Grackle – 4

Orange-crowned Warbler – 3

Yellow Warbler – 10

Yellow-rumped Warbler – 20 “Audubon’s”

-          5 “Myrtle”

-          1 hybrid

BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER – 1m

 

 

Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages