Today, I believe at least 15 people helped with the Pueblo Christmas Bird Count (the circle includes hot spots of Lake Minnequa, Runyon Lake, Huerfano Lake, South Road Pond, Roselawn Cemetery, and private property locations (only accessible on count day) . Our species total appears to be at *97 species *(which is pretty good total for this count), plus at least one count week species. A few rare ones, that have been around since last week, continued today (and were all photographed).
White-winged Scoter - 1 female/immature was new for the count American White Pelican - 1 (2nd time for the count) Barrow's Goldeneye - 1 male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Greater Scaup - 4 Some other nice finds on Count Day Greater White-fronted Goose Snow and Ross's Goose Cinnamon Teal (a pair, new for the count, and totally not expected) Double-crested Cormorant Sora Iceland Gull (Thayer's Gull) Lesser Black-backed Gull White-winged Dove Western Screech-Owl Say's Phoebe Golden-crowned Kinglet (count week) Eastern and Mountain Bluebird Vesper Sparrow (very unexpected, 2nd time for the count) Swamp Sparrow Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Some species we didn't find today, that I don't think are on the Count Week list yet (Dec 16-18, and Dec 20-22) : Canvasback, Scaled Quail, Wild Turkey, Golden Eagle, Rough-legged Hawk, Lewis's Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Merlin, Northern Shrike, Chihuahuan Raven, American Pipit, Lapland Longspur, Great-tailed Grackle, Pine Siskin. Thanks to the excellent helpers, for counting birds on a pretty windy day east of Pueblo. I compile all the numbers and get them entered into the CBC Website, as soon as I can. For anyone interested, I've heard from compiler Mark Yaeger, that the Pueblo Reservoir CBC total for Dec 15th found 120 species. I've now gone on five Christmas Bird Counts, five days in a row. Now a CBC break for me, for at least a few days. On yesterday's (18 December) Rocky Ford CBC, Duane Nelson and I found a Williamson's Sapsucker, and a Pygmy Nuthatch in the town of Rocky Ford, Otero County, since not too many mountain birds are wandering out on the plains, these two were quite surprising that far east. -- Brandon Percival Pueblo CBC Compiler Pueblo West, CO -- 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/CA%2BXeEuUyvxxr4Fz3WVu6n%3Dr2zcFu9qwX7j6h_tO_Gwm4jJA36w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
