Date: 9 July 2014 Time: 1030-1130 It took me a few days to chase down these birds, but I followed up on the Mountain Plover sightings from Mark Chavez (I believe on the 6th or 7th of July). In the same area, I found 3 Mountain Plovers, and I also found and photographed a McCown's Longspur just a little east of there and a Grasshopper Sparrow just a little west of there.
There was a truck parked along the road for pipeline construction. The entire time I was there, I only saw two other vehicles. The first scared one of the plovers just as he was getting really close to me. The other blew up my chance at getting a better picture of the sparrow. Timing. Oh, well. I remind myself that roads are for driving and it's me that's being the nuisance. Sigh John Breitsch Denver, Colorado https://www.flickr.com/photos/breitschbirding/ -- 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/c524f48b-8a13-422c-8843-089d9e82ecd3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
