Date: 11/20/24 3:48 pm From: DAVID A LEATHERMAN <daleatherman...> Subject: [cobirds] Midges (Larimer)
On 14 November 2024 Lori Brummer went to see the Black-throated Blue Warbler found earlier that day by Lori Zabel. Lori B. got the photo below of the bird sitting on a bare branch in an aerial sea of large chironomid midges. She posted it to her eBird checklist and was nice enough to let me share it here as further evidence of what this beautiful, somewhat migration-challenged bird utilized to cope while heading southeast. I think the midge species shown matches the big gray one I posted close-ups of yesterday.
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Another eBirder, Belle Farley Ciezak, posted on 14 November 2024 a pic of the Black-throated Blue Warbler (checklist ML626263053) that shows one of these midges in the beak of the bird.
Case closed.
I thank Brendan Beers for calling both Lori B.'s and Belle's photos to my attention.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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