COBirders, Kara Carragher, Brandon Percival, Dan Maynard and I birded what ended up being all day in southeast Colorado. It was actually chilly in the morning hours in Baca and Prowers counties before the sun somewhat broke out and warmed things a little. Below are the highlights, hopefully I do not miss anything. Baca county: Two Buttes - (as it can sometimes be, it was very slow, maybe it got better later when it warmed up?) 2 - Northern Waterthrush
Prowers county: Fairmount Cemetery - 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler (m) 1 Blackpoll Warbler (m) 1 Magnolia Warbler (m) 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Black-headed Grosbeak Lamar Community College - 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO (singing) 1 Plumbeous Vireo 1 Blackpoll Warbler (m) 1 Nashville Warbler (I think a male but I did not see this bird) 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler (f) Lots of birds and easily could have missed something with all the birds that were there. Thurston Reservoir - 13 Black Terns 1 Forester's Tern Bent county: Tempel Grove - 2 Ovenbirds 3 American Redstarts (2m 1?) 1 Hooded Warbler (f) 1 Magnolia Warbler (m) 1 Black-throated Green Warbler (m) 1 Summer Tanager 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Willow Flycatcher This is all I can remember but I think I am forgetting something. Here is the list of other warblers seen at Tempel Grove yesterday that we did not see: 1 Nashville Warbler 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Worm-eating Warbler Van's Grove - 1 Nashville Warbler (f) 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Hammond's Flycatcher Otero county: Bent's Old Fort - 7 Black Rail (What I found interesting here was that the BLRAs were calling the whole time, maybe 20 minutes. We only heard 3 Virginia Rails and 1 Sora and only 1 or 2 times each) Rocky Ford SWA - 1 Northern Waterthrush Crowley county: Feedlot ponds - 1000+ Wilson's Phalarope Lake Henry - 2 Piping Plovers (hanging out on the dam road, very cool birds) 2 Lesser Yellowlegs (note: one of the LEYE gave GRYE call multiple times) 37 Sanderlings (my personal opinion is that Lake Henry is the most reliable spot in CO for Sanderling, not total individuals just regularity, again this is just an opinion ;) ) 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 200+ Long-billed Dowitchers (could not find any Short-billed) 150+ Stilt Sandpipers 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers 7 Baird's Sandpipers 4 Least Sandpipers 5 Willet 1 Peregrine Falcon Forster's Terns Black Terns It was great company, great birding and great weather! ----- Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
