Mary Burger and I met at Chatfield to look for the vireo nest. We spent a half hour with another birder who had seen it a few days ago, but was looking in the wrong tree. I walked on down a few yards farther and, just as Larry’s wonderfully explicit June 1 posted directions state (copy in my pocket!), easily found the nest hanging high up on branches on the left of the cottonwood. We watched through scopes from 10:30-11:45. The Plumbeous Vireo was in the nest and would stick its whole head out once in a while and I could see the bill moving as it sang from the nest. We heard the Yellow-throated Vireo singing a few times from a tree to the left of the nest, but never saw that bird. The storm last night brought lots of leaves and small branches down, but the nest survived fine. We will keep checking.
Kay
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