Hi all I did our "4th Annual Weld County 100" (solo COVID-19 birding) this year and tallied 109 birds! Highlights and newcomers below.
"Mr. Irrelevant" (#100) this year was Great-tailed Grackle. - Chimney Swift (Greeley 8th Avenue-area) - Red-necked Phalarope (Weld CR 59, Cozzens Lake and Crom Lake) - Franklin's Gull (Weld County Landfill. Of note the "landfill work activity" nearest Hwy 14 attracting lots of gulls easily viewed) - Forster's Tern (Windsor Lake, Cozzens Lake and Woods Lake) - Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Weld CR 102) - Green-tailed Towhee and Northern Mockingbird (Weld CR 110 Lone Tree Creek crossing) - Both longspurs (Weld CR 45/114) - Spotted Towhee (Weld CR 94/37 Gravel Pit) - Cassin's Sparrow (Weld CR 41 btw 102/100) - Black-headed Grosbeak and Gray Catbird (Nunn yard) Photos: http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/165/4th-annual-weld-county-100 Full list: Snow Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Chimney Swift American Coot Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Killdeer Marbled Godwit Baird's Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Forster's Tern Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White-faced Ibis Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Say's Phoebe Western Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Horned Lark Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee House Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Swainson's Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chestnut-collared Longspur McCown's Longspur Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Cassin's Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock's Oriole Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/55ed6aa1-6b66-4dbf-875c-2e7137fa2469%40googlegroups.com.
