Colorado birders,
Richard Hayes and I plan to do Jerry Cooper's "Summer in Colorado" week
starting June 16. Many of you may be familiar with Cooper's "Birdfinder"
book, published in 1995 by the ABA. We also have "A Birder's guide to
Colorado" (1997) by Holt. Both of these are excellent but have not been
recently revised.
Our itinerary:
Day 1- Pawnee Grasslands and Rocky Mt. NP
Day 2- RMNP
Day 3- RMNP and Golden Gate Canyon park
Day 4- Hanging Lake (maybe not-I have a brokken ankle), Cameo, Colorado
NM
Day 5- Colorado NM, Grand Junction area
Day 6 -Extra day
Targets:
Day 1- McCown's & Chestnut-collard Longspurs. Lark Bunting, Mountain
Plover
Day 2- White-tailed Ptarmigan, Brown-capped Rosy-finch. probably can't
hike to the Black Swift site (alas)
Day 3-Dusky Flycatcher
Day 4 & 5- Chukar, Sage Thrasher, Sage Sparrow, Juniper Titmouse, Gray
Vireo, longshot at Sage Grouse
Extra-whatever we miss. Might go up Mt. Evans for high-altitude stuff.
Long shot possibles: Boreal and Flammulated Owls (yeah, I know they're
really hard).
Richard is an Air Force Academy grad and lived in Colorado Springs after
retirement from the Air Force, but he only recently started birding.
He's good, though. I've been at this since 1979 but haven't birded out
west extensively. I've birded Mt. Evans and RMNP once for few days in
September.
Any tips/updates greatly appreciated, and we'd love to have company if
you're free. We'll have a rental car.
Thanks,
Steve Compton
Greenville,SC
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