Today, Larry Arnold and I started along the Grand Junction's Connected Lakes. A Plumbeous Vireo there, a tad early, represented nearly the only passerine migrant. So, we headed up to Glade Park, just south of which (in the sage/grasslands) we had Black-throated, Sage, and Brewer's Sparrows. Getting up into vast aspen woodlands, with a scattering of Ponderosa Pines, we encountered a couple very interesting birds just south of Mud Spring Campground:
1- A Pink-sided Junco performing distraction displays, as if it had started nesting nearby...
2- A brilliant lutescens race Orange-crowned Warbler. This is the race that breeds along the Pacific Coast, but has a wintering range that suggest that some individuals might pass through CO.
On my way home, I stopped at Rose (I think I got that right) and 8th in Georgetown, the yard at which the Rufous-collared Sparrow had inhabited. I was rather surprised to find a male INDIGO BUNTING at the feeder.
Finally, a House Finch in that yard had incorporated part of the Rufous-collared Sparrows song into its warblings!!!
Good Birding
Steven Mlodinow
Longmont CO
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