Date: 10/6/26 12:25 am From: Patrick O'Driscoll <patodrisk...> Subject: Re: [cobirds] Townsend’s Solitaire, Louisville
Along with juncos, solitaires are my favorite harbinger of the coming
winter -- and they are definitely back in Denver City Park.
Monday evening two pairs of them were doing something I'd never witnessed
before:
Madly chasing each other in and out of and around the tight confines of the
park's "pinetum" conifer grove, below the south wall of the Denver Museum
of Nature & Science.
And they were singing -- not calling yet -- all the while.
At one point I stood still as they repeatedly whooshed past at eye/head
level, oblivious of me.
Occasionally one or another would alight on an evergreen branch for a few
seconds, still warbling, then resuming the circular chase. This went on
for a good 15 minutes, maybe more.
The pinetum has a number of berry-filled junipers that will tide over one
of these very territorial birds through the coming winter. It's a favorite
stop on birding rounds of the park to catch that soft yet penetrating
whistle:
*heep . . . heep . . . heep . . .*
Patrick O'Driscoll
Denver
On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM David Suddjian <dsuddjian...> wrote:
> Solitaires are very common right now in juniper habitats in the lowest
> JeffCo foothills. We counted *85* on a 3 hour morning walk at Mt Falcon
> on Oct 3. Twenty in 0,2 miles at Deer Creek Canyon on Sept 27. For example
> . . .
>
> David Suddjian
> Littleton, CO
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM 'DuWayne Worthington' via Colorado Birds <
> <cobirds...> wrote:
>
>> I also saw a Townsends Solitaire at the Marjorie Nature Preserve while
>> searching for the Couch's Kingbird yesterday on Sunday morning. We first
>> heard it off in the distance, and then when walking out, it was at
>> eye-level in one of the trees on the trail. We were like, "Oh, there you
>> are!"
>> DuWayne
>> Worthington
>> Instructional Faculty ‑ Science
>> 303.471.3278 | <duwayne.worthington...>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM Paula Hansley <plhansley...> wrote:
>>
>>> At 10:15 am I heard the familiar whistle of the Townsend’s Solitaire for
>>> the first time this fall!
>>> The call was coming from a tall juniper tree east of my property.
>>>
>>> It’s amazing how far its whistle carries!
>>>
>>> Paula Hansley
>>> Boulder County
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