Date: 5/9/25 12:52 pm From: 'arvind panjabi' via Colorado Birds <cobirds...> Subject: [cobirds] Mississippi Kite, Fort Collins, Larimer
Hello co-birders,
Sorry for the late report but this was not really a chaseable bird.
Yesterday evening (May 8) around 5:30, I watched a Mississippi Kite fly slowly northward in Fort Collins, near the intersection of Country Club and Ridgecrest roads. It was a couple hundred yards away and I first mistook it for a harrier, but the tail was too long, tried to turn it into a cooper's hawk, but then noticed the slow graceful wingbeats and buoyant flight. At one point it even flew straight up vertically what seemed like about 50 ft, perhaps to grab a snack, before dropping back down and continuing its flight. It flew off towards Terry Lake.
Also in a yard here at about the same time was an Olive-sided Flycatcher.
Cheers,
Arvind Panjabi Fort Collins, CO
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