I birded for a few hours in Lamar (Prowers) this morning before heading back to Fort Collins. Blue sky, wind out of the west, the "weather thing" seemed over and the birds went with it.
Lamar High School windbreak: Wilson's Warbler (1m) *Broad-winged Hawk (1a) FOS Riverside Cemetery on Maple Street: Wood Duck (pair up in an elm) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) Wilson's Warbler (1m) [This bird makes about the 5th in this storm system, about the total number I usually see in an entire spring.] Carder Gravel Ponds (private) e of 287 n of Ark. River in north Lamar: Western Grebe (1) Ended up with a total of 96 spp. in the area I call "Lamar" with two more, Burrowing Owl and Loggerhead Shrike, just a mile or so north of my artificial boundary. Major misses were Canada Goose, yellowlegs sp. or spp., Great Blue Heron, Marsh Wren, Lincoln's Sparrow, Song Sparrow, probably others. Nee Noshe Locust Grove (Kiowa) Western Kingbird (1) Loggerhead Shrike (1) Downy Woodpecker (1 eastern) Variegated Meadowhawk (2) FOS Last Chance (Washington): *Black-throated Gray Warbler (1m) FOS Orange-crowned Warbler (1) Common Yellowthroat (1m) FOS Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) Highway 14 e of Briggsdale (Weld): Rough-legged Hawk (1i) LOS? Crow Valley CG (Weld): Great Horned Owl on the nest (Siberian elm se of Group Area restroom hut in the northwest corner of CG) McCown's Longspur (heard, fly-over) Cooper's Hawk (adult m) eating a Eurasian Collared-Dove (Cooper's Hawk is the winner in the unscientific, anecdotal, citizen-observation poll as to which raptor has best "discovered" the new entree on the menu) Sharp-shinned Hawk (1i) southwest corner juniper Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) Not much really, area seemed vacuumed out, trees are still wondering if they can come out for spring Crom Lake w of Pierce on CR31 s of CR90: Marbled Godwit (2) FOS Clark's Grebe (1) Dave Leatherman Fort Collins --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
