Hi all Great weather for us out in Stoneham for this CBC. We had gracious and appreciative hosts at the Pawnee Station Cafe in New Raymer. We promoted the concept of Christmas Bird Counts to the locals and energy sector workers, too. We also got to meet some of the local ranchers/farmers while out in the field and some providing access to quality bird habitat which most certainly increased our count efforts. The Horned Lark (and Lapland Longspur) population are far greater in the east section of PNG versus the west, tally for both here dominated what was seen on Nunn CBC. It was mentioned by all whether on the count or en route to the count the lack of overall raptor #s and species in area--there were plenty of food (birds and prairie dogs) around and perching opportunity--but we got our fair share. All teams had Lapland Longspur. Apparently, we drove right by a perched Long-eared Owl that another team had just picked up when we crossed paths :-( Overall, fun CBC had by all. About a half-day event for interested participants next year. The crow was surprising (for me).
First annual Pawnee National Grassland-East CBC birds: - Northern Harrier - 4 - Rough-legged Hawk - 2 - Ferruginous Hawk - 2 - UNID buteo - 1 - Long-eared Owl - 2 - Prairie Falcon - 4 - American Crow - 1 - Horned Lark - 3,092 - Townsend's Solitaire - 1 - American Robin - 1 - House Sparrow - 12 - House Finch - 4 - Lapland Longspur - 68 - American Tree Sparrow - 1 - Dark-eyed Junco - 16 - Song Sparrow - 1 - Golden Eagle - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 9 - Great Horned Owl - 1 - Northern Shrike - 1 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/b1b9a53d-edc5-44ff-b4ee-700cf69832ad%40googlegroups.com.
