Chico Basin Ranch (fee) (El Paso County) in large cottonwoods and Siberian elms just east of the white building with the red sliding doors, aka banding station as of 17 April. It is loosely associated with two Mountain Chickadees and a Brown Creeper, often very high but sometimes on the main trunks or on top of the largest limbs foraging like a Black-and-white Warbler. Brewer's and Vesper sparrows are out in the cholla grasslands and plenty of Burrowing Owls (no Mountain Plovers) on the main road south until you find a healthy black-tailed prairie-dog town and both Curve-billed and Sage thrashers on the way there with an occasional Scaled Quail. The traditional dog towns have recently had plague, Yersina pestis, so you might not want to roll around too much there. Ladder-backed Woodpeckers in almost every large woodlot and three teal species on the ponds plus lots of migrant male Yellow-headed Blackbirds at HQ where you sign a waiver and pay $$. Shorebirds?.not so much.
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