Joe might do Mother's Day in Phillips County, but I try to head SE on this
weekend. Here are some highlights from today-Limon to La Junta the long way.
The day featured wave after wave of sparrows-mainly Chipping and Lark, but also
one or two to many of Grasshopper, Vesper, Brewer's, Clay-colo
Tom Wilberding, Todd Deininger and I headed down to Bent County yesterday to
try for Crested Caracara. Alas, when we arrived at about 6:30 on Friday
evening, Steve Larson was there saying that he had last glimpsed the bird
briefly over 150 minutes earlier. (Minutes will continue to be importan
CO Birders :
Spent the last three days atlasing in Otero and Las Animas counties south
of La Junta and some of the highlights as follows :
Saturday 5/28 : Otero County : Picket Wire Canyon trail to the cemetery ,
singing first spring Summer Tanager ( coordinates N 38 deg 32' 26" , W 104 d
I continued my birding in SE Colorado today, essentially circumnavigating the
Wood Thrush Grove Fire. Lots of spring birds, but I found it interesting that
I missed several species that are being seen further north.
>From La Junta I drove south to Kim and then east to Cottonwood Canyon. That
Todd Deininger and I braved the weather and ventured out for a mid-May
trip to Southeast Colorado this weekend. We ended up with 157 trip
species, a 122 species day on Saturday and a 120 species day on our
return yesterday. Sorry for the late report, but I was off line during
the trip and too tir
Well, I only get one day for spring break, so I try to make the most of it with
a long weekend. I usually like to tell my fashion conscious friends that I
went to Trinidad, but this year I didn't make it, although I did get to Las
Animas County twice!
I started off on Friday by heading out to
I finished up my trip to Southeast Colorado today, and I think that the
most interesting observation that I can come up with is that the timing
of migration 150-200 miles to the south and east of the front range
wasn't too much different than up here. For instance, I looked at
Brandon Percival's r
Since I couldn't join Todd and Tom on their trip to Durango because of
an appointment in Colorado Springs Friday, I headed southeast instead.
Friday night I heard at least one Black Rail at JJ and 17.5 in Bent
County along with many Sora, Virginia Rails and American Bitterns.
This morning I
