The High Plains Snow Goose Festival is this coming weekend in Lamar.
Speakers/field trip leaders familiar to COBIRDS participants include Ted Floyd,
Jeff Gordon, and me. There are extensive other offerings (birds, other
wildlife, local history, etc), both in terms of field trips and presentations.
$5 gets you a raffle ticket for the drawing (prize is a $2000 Swarovski
binocular!).
This area has received 0.1 inches of rain in 2011 and the countryside looks
very dry. Still, Lamar is Lamar, and always has something of interest.
Highlights of checking the "area" (roughly a CBC-sized circle centered on
downtown) for the last two days are:
Northern Cardinal (2m,1f) Lamar Community College Woods (LCCW) 2/23
Bushtit (about 8) north end of LCCW foraging in Russian-olives on aphid eggs
or old aphid cadavers, new for my Prowers County list 2/23
Cooper's Hawk (adult eating a Eurasian-Collared Dove, LCCW) 2/23
Yellow-rumped Warbler (various places, wherever there are berry-laden junipers)
Lesser Goldfinch (1 heard repeatedly in two locations at LCCW, deep in olive
thickets, never could get a look, unusual for winter)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1 in Willow Valley Subdivision and 1 at Riverside
Cemetery (Maple Street e of Main in n end of town)) 2/22 and 2/23
Northern Mockingbird (1 at north end of Lamar HS windbreak (14th and Yucca)),
which is where one usually winters 2/23
Brown Creeper (1 at Riverside Cemetery, 1 at north end of Willow Creek Park)
2/22 and 2/23
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 juv, north end of Willow Creek Park, in a tall
honeylocust j south of the concrete outhouse building) 2/22
White-breasted Nuthatch (2, eastern subspecies, north end of Willow Creek Park)
2/22
Hairy Woodpecker (1f of eastern subspecies at Riverside Cemetery, 1 heard at
LCCW) 2/23
Green-winged Teal (flock of 150 in a little pond on SR196 1 mile e of the Lamar
Museum (at the US50 curve well n of the river n of the Cow Palace Motel))
Sandhill Crane (several small flocks north of town on 2/22)
Thurston Reservoir north of town has a nice assortment of diving and dabbling
ducks (including newly arrived Cinnamon Teal) and the expected 4 spp. of geese
("white-cheeked" and "white"). Nothing that I saw on 2/22 was rare.
Misses: Brown Thrasher, Curve-billed Thrasher and Great Horned Owl at LCCW,
Scaled Quail and Mountain Bluebird anywhere.
Total of 59 species so far
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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