Not sure why my e-mail didn't show correctly - mod...@hotmail.com On Apr 17, 4:42 pm, modise <mod...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all - my wife and I spent 3 days driving 700 miles from Denver to > Lamar, Pueblo, and back to Denver mainly birding Kiowa, Prowers, Bent, > and Otero counties. > > Many thanks to all the kind birders in that part of the state - we met > Brandon Percival (nicknamed "a couple of weeks too soon" by my wife > and me when asking about all the warblers and Mississippi kites we > wanted to see) and Gene Rutherford in the Lamar Community College > Woods (LCCW) (and later at Two Buttes), a very kind school-teacher > from McClave who we met in LCCW who directed us to a red-bellied > woodpecker nest just south of the woods, Fred and Norma Dorenkamp > (awesome job with the lesser prairie chicken tour!), and Stan Osgood > in Rocky Flats. These kind of people make it so much fun (and so much > easier)! Also, the people in the towns through which we passed were > all very friendly and helpful! > > I compiled a complete list of 91 unique species, 157 species that > crossed multiple counties, and the following county totals: > > Lincoln - 1 > Prowers - 52 > Kiowa - 27 > Bent - 30 > Otero - 47 > > If anyone would like the complete list, please e-mail > mod...@hotmail.com and I'll be happy to send it - it's in Excel format > and too long to post! > > Highlights include: > Prowers - Chihuahuan Raven nesting (Gobbler's Knob rest area between > Lamar CC and Two Buttes); scaled quail (Camp Amache next to the rodeo > arena in Granada); barn owl at Fred and Norma's place; northern > cardinals and red-bellied woodpecker in LCCW; not a bird, but a > porcupine in a tree at Two Buttes > > Kiowa - feeding golden eagle, multiple Chihuahan ravens, and wild > turkeys displaying (Raven Lane); Blue Lake in general (nice marbled > godwit!) > > Bent - Wilson's snipe at Bent Fort Inn, Lake Hasty (common loon) > > Otero - Lake Cheraw! Snowy Plover, Franklin Gulls, four of six grebes > (horned, eared, western, Clark's), Holbrook Bonaparte's gull and > Baird's sandpiper > > Bryan and Kristin Arnold > Jefferson County > 5,500'
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