GRAY FLYCATCHER CO-196
Climbing the Rockies: juniper habitat, Temple Canyon Park, Canyon City, Colorado
June 8, 4:49 a.m.
Sunrise at 5:37 a.m.
A second gray flycatcher at dawn. This male sings six to nine, rough chu-WIP songs before his first high, thin teeah, 39 songs in all during this one-minute selection.
Three neighboring gray flycatchers sing in the predawn darkness here in Temple Canyon: CO-195, CO-196, CO-197.
Background
Chipping sparrow, American robin, black-headed grosbeak, roar of river down below.
Photo by Brian L. Sullivan
