Date: 6/22/25 4:18 pm From: DAVID A LEATHERMAN <daleatherman...> Subject: Re: [cobirds] Chipping Sparrow Question? - Metro Area
Chris et al,
Chipping sparrows have nested in small numbers for most years in the last10 at Grandview Cemetery in urban Fort Collins (elevation about 5000’ ASL). Other occasional but regular foothills species nesting at Grandview have been Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Western Wood-Pewees and Bushtits. A Western Tanager nested at Grandview a few years ago, as did a Red Crossbill. I think all of this is influenced by habitat maturation and climate change, probably mostly the former. The recent increased reporting of Western Flycatchers at low elevation seems part of this phenomenon, also.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2025 5:04:15 PM
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Subject: [cobirds] Chipping Sparrow Question? - Metro Area
Hi COBIRDERS,
Where: Suburban neighborhoods just west of the Denver Tech Center, Arapahoe County
When: First 3 week of June 2025
I have found a number of adult Chipping Sparrows in our neighborhoods and parks each week of June this year. They should already be nesting up in the Ponderosa Pine forests of the Front Range.
Today I found one "carrying food".
Question: Are others also finding Chipping Sparrows seemingly nesting in the Metro Area this year or in the last couple of years.
As Bob Righter pointed out a bunch of years ago, at that point Red-breasted Nuthatches had become year round residents of the Metro Area. The same with Bushtits. Are we now seeing a change with Chipping Sparrows?
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