Date: 6/20/25 11:42 am From: Gary Brower <grb4914...> Subject: Re: [cobirds] Different bird at my deck last evening
May 27, 2024, Cherry Creek State Park.
> On Jun 20, 2025, at 12:00 PM, Ira Sanders <zroadrunner14...> wrote:
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> May 11, 2006, Welchester Tree Park, Lakewood
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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM Patrick O'Driscoll <patodrisk...> <mailto:<patodrisk...>> wrote:
>> As Mary says, it's certainly possible.
>> We had a rather celebrated Blackburnian five years ago at the "migrant trap" that is the First Creek @ Green Valley Ranch hotspot in Denver.
>> The male bird stuck around for five days in mid-May 2020 and became a lifer for many birders.
>>
>> Patrick O'Driscoll
>> Denver
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>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM Mary Keithler <mkeithler...> <mailto:<mkeithler...>> wrote:
>>> Hi Pauli,
>>>
>>> According to Sibley’s range map, they are rare here, but certainly possible.
>>>
>>> Mary
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On Jun 20, 2025, at 10:28 AM, Pauli Driver-Smith <hollyhockfarms...> <mailto:<hollyhockfarms...>> wrote:
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>>>> That is the closest that I found in my bird book, but do they get down this far south? Beautiful bird. I wish I could have gotten a photo, but it was too fast for me.
>>>>
>>>> Pauli
>>>> From: Mary Keithler <mkeithler...> <mailto:<mkeithler...>> >>>> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2025 10:27 AM
>>>> To: Driver-Smith Pauli <hollyhockfarms...> <mailto:<hollyhockfarms...>> >>>> Cc: cobirds <cobirds...> <mailto:<cobirds...>> >>>> Subject: Re: [cobirds] Different bird at my deck last evening
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>>>> Hi Pauli,
>>>> At least part of your description sounds like a Blackburnian warbler.
>>>>
>>>> Mary
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 20, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Pauli Driver-Smith <hollyhockfarms...> <mailto:<hollyhockfarms...>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I had a small bird fly down at my feet last evening then take off into the trees. I got a fairly good look at it, and I know for sure that it is one I have never seen before. It took off again before I could get a picture.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not a professional birder or even a avid hobbyist anymore, so I don't know the proper terminology, but I'll do my best to describe it.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like a warbler. right size, beak and body shape, etc. What is different is that it had an orange throat that bled down into his chest, dark brown/almost black body, white wing patches/bars` and a bit of a black cap that stretched down to his back. The orange was really orange until it reached his chest then blended into more of a yellowish tint. If it was a lot bigger, I'd say it resembled some Orioles in coloring.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas of what it might be?
>>>>>
>>>>> Pauli Smith
>>>>> Highlandlake/Mead, Weld County.
>>>>> I live across the road from the south shore of the lake.
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