Black Phoebes still in Canon City
I failed to mention in yesterday's post that I saw a Black Phoebe, like a juvenile, when I was out birding. Today I returned for a little more birding. I saw a Black Phoebe (didn't get a good enough view to tell if it was a juvenile) sallying and calling over a farm pond almost a half mile from the Black Phoebe I saw yesterday. Since it is my experience that Black Phoebes do wonder around an area at least as far as a half mile even in the same day while foraging, this could be the same bird.
Then another quarter mile further I found at least 1 more Black Phoebe, sallying over the Arkansas River in a location where I was seeing this species last month. There might have been a second bird a little further upstream but I couldn't say for sure it was not the same bird, again because they do move around at times.
That would mean that there are at least 2, and possibly up to 4, Black Phoebes still on my friend's farm in the Canon City area. I haven't had a chance to check the MacKenzie Ave bridge location for Black Phoebes lately. Black Phoebes usually stay until mid- to late September in this area (though a few have been here in winter, most seem to migrate).
SeEtta