Last night (3/28) Sol Miller and I decided to headed up towards Cameron Pass last night to try our luck at Boreal Owl. While on our way we saw an Osprey at Namaqua Park in SE Loveland. We decided we would try to quickly see the White-winged Crossbills in the Grandview Cemetery. We were able to watch the female on the nest and also heard the male fly north from the same tree. We also heard a group of Sandhill Cranes fly over and we also saw a Great Horned Owl on a nest (owl number 1 for the trip). We started up Risk Canyon at dusk and quickly found a Northern Pygmy-Owl in lower Rist Canyon sitting at the top of an aspen, we watched it for about 15 minutes before heading on. Our next stop was the parking lot at Joe Wright Reservoir, but when we got there the wind was howling and we were not able to hear anything. We decided to try the Jackson County side and there was no wind at all. Between the Moose Visitor Center and the pass we heard at least 7 Boreal Owls calling spontaneously, one of he owls we were able to see the silhouette fly across the road, but we were not able to see it after it landed. On our way back towards Fort Collins we had 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl on the Pennock Pass road and another in upper Risk Canyon. Back in SW Loveland we decided to try for Eastern Screech-Owl. We were not able to find any screech-owls, but we heard 4 more Great Horned Owls. We ended up with 15 individual owls of 4 different species and every owl on the trip was calling spontaneously. If anyone wants better details to the owl locations please contact me privately.
Earlier in the day I had 2 White-tailed Ptarmigan by one of the pulloffs on the Summit County side of Loveland Pass. Cole Wild Loveland -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.