Folks,
Loch Kilpatrick and I blew off work and went birding out east. We had a
marvelous day with 16 species of warblers and a Vermilion Flycatcher.
Highlights include:
Prewitt SWA
Willow Flycatcher
Trail's Flycatcher 'spuh'
Red-eyed Vireo
Swainson's Thrush (dozens)
Blackburnian Warbler (f)
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At 8 AM today I arrived on the south shore of Jumbo Reservoir (Logan
County), picked up my glasses to scan and in the first field of view spotted
the
Yellow-billed Loon that Cole Wild found yesterday (THANKS, Cole). In fact
it was not too far away and was the only bird on the south half of
Brad Steger, Mark Peterson, Lisa Edwards, and I spent a successful long day of
birding in North Eastern Colorado.
We started at 3am, and went north from Colorado Spring to Larimer County.
We tried for the Least Bittern(s) at Cottonwood Hollow without finding them,
though there were two Gr