Saturday's (Feb. 7th) Black Canyon Audubon raptor field trip was well attended with approx. 40 participants. Overall, seemed there were less raptors in the area than usual.
Here is the list (not in taxonomic order): Golden Eagle - 6 Bald Eagle - 13 Northern Harrier - 7 Red-tailed Hawk - 14 (including one Harlan's) American Kestrel - 8 Rough-legged Hawk - 5 Prairie Falcon - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 2 Ferruginous Hawk - 0 Today (Feb. 8th), visited Confluence Park today with the kids and saw some nice birds. Highlights were 22 Barrow's Goldeneyes on the Gunnison River easily seen from the only parking area on the river. Seems the number of this species keeps increasing at this site as we near spring this year. Finally, a Greater White-fronted Goose showed up (the past few winters there have been at least two here and they have been present all winter). There were a number of smaller "white-cheeked" geese, but I felt at least two were definitely Cackling Geese. A group of Sandhill Cranes acted as if they might land in the fields just north of the lake at one point. Was great to hear them. Cedar Waxwings have been tough to find this winter, so it was nice to see a lot of them. The one Bewick's Wren was singing his little heart out, which was also great to hear. Here is the list: Number of species: 31 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Snow Goose 8 Ross's Goose 3 Cackling Goose 2 Canada Goose 700 Gadwall 4 Mallard 3 Northern Pintail 2 Common Goldeneye 3 Barrow's Goldeneye 22 Common Merganser 7 Bald Eagle 2 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 50 Northern Flicker 2 Common Raven 1 Black-capped Chickadee 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Bewick's Wren 1 Mountain Bluebird 140 American Robin 2 European Starling 45 Cedar Waxwing 30 Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 Spotted Towhee 1 White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel's) 4 Dark-eyed Junco 3 House Finch 8 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Jason Beason Paonia - Delta County --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
