Date: 11/21/24 6:43 pm From: Ted Floyd <tedfloyd73...> Subject: [cobirds] 1½ Greenlee lifers for me today, Nov. 21 (Boulder Co.)
Hey, all.
With the rather blustery weather, not to mention a hard freeze overnight,
there was some turnover in the bird community in the "Greater Greenlee
Ecosystem," comprising Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Waneka Lake, & Hecla
Pond, earlier today, Thurs., Nov. 21.
In a good pulse of activity around mid-day, these birds:
•
*snow goose*
• *greater white-fronted goose*
•
*winter wren*•
*nominate leucophrys white-crowned sparrow*•
*white-throated sparrow*
The winter wren was a Greenlee lifer for me, #262, if anybody's keeping
track. The nominate *leucophrys* white-crowned sparrow also was my first
for the site. I guess some people don't count that taxon. But did you know
that the white-crowned sparrow is thought to be paraphyletic, with
golden-crowned sparrow nested within the "species"? So...yeah. If you go
looking for the nominate *leucophrys* white-crowned sparrow tomorrow, it
looks like this:
Otherwise, the usual suspects: tons, literally, of *cackling geese;* a
drake *hooded merganser* still hanging on; *northern flicker* intergrades;
prime *bushtits;* and a *brown creeper.* eBird checklist, if you're
interested:
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