Thanks to all for another great CFO convention! A few photos are on my website. http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_CFO_13.htm
Mary Cay and Tom Burger and I birded our way out to Cortez on May 15, stopping at Antero and other spots. We toured fascinating Mesa Verde on the 16th. Doug Faulkner led us on an excellent trip to the NW of Cortez and found great birds and rescued "cars" and people from a W rattlesnake! Then Sat. Ted Floyd took us up to ~9000' where we were able to watch a Dusky Grouse booming. Ted turned a few photographers loose to get closer for photos. My experience has been that DUGR are not shy! This one just walked slowly up his log and kept on booming with several photographers following him! Lots of Grace's Warblers everywhere. And one flyby-western Purple Martin! The last day, deep snow had caused road closures, so in order to begin the long trek home, we were forced to forego John Drummond's trip into high country to the NE of Cortez. Instead we drove from Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Montrose and home via Black Canyon of the Gunnison. We were astounded at all the snow, having just left the Cortez area where they are in their 3rd year of a drought. Beautiful state of Colorado! Perhaps one of our birding spots with the most variety was the Mancos City Park along the Mancos R on the way home! We even had a flock of Evening Grosbeaks feeding in the cottonwoods. Tons of Pine Siskins everywhere! Most of the species were concentrating their feeding in the narrowleaf cottonwood catkins (pollen protein, insects, seeds already?). Thanks again to all those who helped to make another CFO convention so much fun! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications 5651 Garnet St. Golden, CO 80403 303.679.6646 k...@kayniyo.com; www.KayNiyo.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/005f01ce5fb6%24675e8f60%24361bae20%24%40com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
