Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Did a quick drive tour the other day of part of the area that burned here last week. Lost some old cottonwoods but they will make good nesting sites for Lewis's woodpeckers. Saw a small flock of American pipits on burned grassland near a pond. Flocks of migrating mountain bluebirds in the burn areas searching for insects. Had a large soot/ash devil running over the darkened landscape. That was quite the sight.
Found a Virginia Rail amongst some burned cattail stubble near a spring looking rather naked and lost. It managed to find some vegetation to hide in before I could get my camera zoomed. On a nearby pond there were small numbers of gadwall, green-winged teal, redhead, and ring-necked ducks. Hoping for some precipitation to kick start the grass, preferably a wet snow as opposed to a flashy rain event. The grassland rebounded quite nicely last year after the late summer rains in the area that burned in April. Rick Clawges Ft. Carson Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
