While very briefly in the Pueblo area Friday, we birded Pueblo Mnt. Park and found the Hooded and Grace's Warblers and a single Acorn Woodpecker in the snag by the lot. The Hooded was not singing, but quietly feeding in the low Gambel's oak understory upstream from the courts. Funny that I had to go to CO to see a Hooded Warbler this year! Also had a Peregrine Falcon soar over us while watching the Acorn.
There is a house on the way into Beulah on the main road with a ton of hummer feeders, and we had all four species of expected hummingbirds (only one Calliope, though). Jeff Witters Olathe, KS On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:26 PM, <migran...@aol.com> wrote: > To follow up on Brandon's post, I took a spin down to Pueblo Mountain Park > yesterday (Thursday) to look for the above critters. Many thanks to Tom > Wilberding for some valuable suggestions. Anyway, I was sucessful in both > quests. The acorn woodpeckers were not in the usual snag (adjacent to the > parking lot), but I found two in the valley just below the snag. When I > was preparing to leave, one of them landed in the parking lot not far from > my car, so they do not appear to be of a mind to make seeing them too big a > challenge. By the way, the little valley in the lower part of the park can > be reached via a short path from the parking lot, or if you are feeling > particularly lazy, you can drive there after heading over to the basketball > court (see below). This little valley is quite birdy- I had a nice flock > of evening grosbeaks (they seem to prefer the stream area just below the > pond), all three nuthatches, plumbeous vireo, Hammond's flycatcher and lots > of other predictable stuff. > > I actually had Grace's warbler at two separate locations, and I thought > these might be of interest to anyone heading down that way to look for > them. To get to the first site, just walk toward the lodge from the > parking lot and go around the right end. You'll soon come to an > old-fashioned metal clothes-line setup; there was a very cooperative > singing bird there. To reach the second site, drive out of the opposite > end of the parking lot (to the left of the building- I'm not sure what it > is) and continue for a couple hundred yards down a draw and up the other > side. You will come to an old concrete basketball court- strange looking > affair with walls. Anyway, just beyond this court was where I found the > other Grace's (per Brandon's comments)- also singing. I could not locate > the hooded, however. > > Good luck and good birding! > > Norm Lewis > Lakewood > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
