Interesting mix of corvids today - Oct. 4th
11-12 Pinyon Jays 2-3 Clark's Nutcrackers As well as 5-6 Steller's Jay 1 BB Magpie 28-30 American Crow Also 3 Audubon's Warblers 10 House Finch 2 Spotted Towhee 1 hummingbird (probably Broad-Tailed, although I only had a poor look). 1 Lesser Goldfinch 1 Downy Woodpecker Update on Lyons area birding spots impacted by the flooding: - Old South St. Vrain Road, off Hwy 7, looks okay, although the vegetation will be scoured away in the lowest areas. Road is passable, but only for Lyons residents. - Two ponds south of the new McConnell Bridge to the high school (common merganers nest there) are both gone.the St. Vrain river is now running through there, and NOT under the bridge, which looks fine. - Pella Crossing looks torn up. the outhouse by the main parking lot is now tipped into a 15 foot deep washout. - Hwy 36 to Estes and Hwy 7 to Allenspark are completely impassable, we can get to Spring Gulch via Apple Valley Rd, which is pretty good. - Downtown Lyons looks okay (just now getting power back, no water or sewer), but all areas down by the river have been changed quite a bit; I heard 76 houses are gone/destroyed. Both St. Vrain rivers have changed their paths.the City of Lyons is attempting to get permission to reroute them back.not sure how that process works. Raymond Davis - at 6,000 ft. NW of Lyons in open Ponderosa -- 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/000601cec12b%244743c020%24d5cb4060%24%40net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
