My wife and I returned on Monday from a nice tour by the Nature Conservancy to
their Fox Ranch property in Yuma County (well known to Ted and others) and then
on toWray, Colorado to see Greater Prairie Chickens putting on a wonderful
show. We then spent a couple hours at Bonny State Park be
Kathy Mihm-Dunning and I headed out east to see if ANY migrants were about.
Well there WERE some migrants at every stop.
Flagler SWA:
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue-headed Vireo - 1
Winter Wren - 1
American Robin - 0, NONE! Zilch! Zippo
Went out east primarily to look for sparrows.
Stopped first at Flagler. Fairly quiet below the dam. A couple of Virginia
rails and marsh wrens still present. Water level is very low.
Bonny SWA
Wagon Wheel CG Almost no migrants. Best thing accomplished was giving a
jump start to two fathers and
Tom Wilberding and Todd Deininger joined me in an outing to Wray and Phillips
County today.
On the way east, just before getting to Ft. Morgan there was a flock of mixed
white geese flying. As we continued east on US 34 we found about 15 Mountain
Bluebirds in the cemetery at Platner between
Katrina Stowasser and I birded eastern Colorado for most of the day (9/7). Here
are the highlights:
Last Chance (Washington)
Canada Warbler - 1 previously reported.
Mississippi Kite - 1 juvenile
Northern Cardinal - 1 female
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Ovenbird - 2
American Redstart - 10
North
Like John Drummond, Urling and I spent the weekend atlasing, in eastern
Colorado. Very few Atlas confirmations, but we added species to all the blocks
that we visited (about 10).
Highlights:
Pewees in almost every patch of trees. We identified one as a likely Eastern
(near Burlington), bu
Hello,
Last week I had a mostly successful 3 day trip through SE Colorado. Because
of work commitments, I couldn't spend longer in the area, and this email
got pushed back a week. My apologies for the belated report.
First off, I would like to Thank Joe Roller, Todd Deininger, and Gary
Weston for
Unexpected time off and beautiful weather provided another opportunity to
enjoy migration on the plains. Orange-Crowed Warblers were widespread,
seen during every stop. Yellow-Rumped Warblers were seen during most
stops, sometimes in small numbers, sometimes in very large numbers.
Chipping a
Katrina Stowasser and I spent the past 2 days Eastern CO. Interesting birds
include:
7/12
Highway 109 just south of Higbee Valley Road (Otero)
Barn Owl - 1
Upland Sandpiper - 1 calling flying over while we were watching the Barn Owl
Common Poorwill - 1
Cottonwood Canyon
Indigo Bunti
Out working near Burlington again I was able to hear a migrating
Sprague's Pipit (private ranch) singing its amazing song (a first for
me!) until a herd of steers stampeded where I hear it singing. The
pipit was not heard again.
This is the best time of spring to search for these pipits (mid/late
I led a Boulder Audubon field trip or 13 birders out east today to Prewitt,
North Sterling and Jackson Reservoirs. A lake trip in February, you might ask.
Well it was pretty darn good, even without any super rarities.
We started at Boyd Pond SWA in Log Lane Village were the pair of Trumpeter
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