Date: 10/24/26 7:30 pm From: Jared Del Rosso <jared.delrosso...> Subject: [cobirds] Wild Centennial - Arapahoe
Busy past 18 hours or so. Two doors down from me, a neighbor's ring camera picked up a Black Bear ambling down our Centennial (Arapahoe) road at 3:30 AM on 10/24. There's very little edible on shrubs or trees this year, and songbirds have cleared much of what is available (creeper berries). So perhaps its the gourds that are everywhere and perhaps also trash that brought the bear around. (This is not far from deKoevend Park, and the bear was walking in that direction.)
This morning, a Hermit Thrush was foraging in the back of my yard. I got to watch a behavior I'd not previously known about -- "foot quivering." Here's *Birds of the World* on it:
*Foot-quivering (using feet to shake and scare insects out of clumps of dead or newly regenerating grasses) has been observed as a foraging maneuver by Hermit Thrush.*
This is apparently both an aggressive and foraging behavior among *Catharus* thrushes. It looked more like foot "stomping" to me. The thrush was doing this in areas of leaf litter, patchy wood chips, and other chunks of organic matter. (Also of note, on this species, was a different one in my yard several weeks ago, clearing out honeysuckle vine (*Lonicera sempervirens*) berries, while a Broad-tailed Hummingbird tried to feed in the flowers.)
Later this morning, I saw and heard a small flock of Pygmy Nuthatches over the High Lien Canal Trail in Centennial.
In the late afternoon (around 4 pm), three dozen Sandhill Cranes flew over my home. Unlike most migratory Sandhill flocks, I saw these before I heard them. Later still, some scat -- likely Red Fox scat -- was on a paved walking path on the side of my home; it wasn't there in the morning.
- Jared Del Rosso Centennial, CO
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