Friday, November 15, 2019

Summer Songbirds Stream Northward

Birders who reside inwards the Northern Hemisphere know that belatedly Apr together with early on May offering or then of the best birding of the yr equally summertime songbirds provide to their breeding grounds.  Here along the Colorado Front Range, that annual parade is good underway.

Over the past times week, broad-tailed hummingbirds together with menage wrens select returned to our Littleton farm and, downward at South Platte Park, I select late observed barn together with violet-green swallows (joining their tree cousins), brown-headed cowbirds, white-crowned sparrows together with a green-tailed towhee; Swainson's thrushes, blue-gray gnatcatchers, chipping sparrows, grayness catbirds, Lazuli buntings together with Bullock's orioles should brand it whatever twenty-four hours now.  The reveal of migrant yellow-rumped warblers has been increasing on a daily the world together with other Western warblers together with flycatchers are expected inside the side past times side 2 weeks.

All of these summertime species volition last greeted past times our side past times side circular of chilly pelting together with snowfall early on side past times side calendar week only they "know" Colorado together with e'er arrange well.  We birders sure enough appreciate the seasonal message that they bring, peculiarly during the fickle conditions of a Front Range April. 

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