Hi Birders, A visit to Longmont's Sandstone Ranch produced quite an aerial show of birds, at one point there was 2 harriers, 2 red-tails, and 1 bald eagle in the air over St. Vrain Creek. Later a horned lark commenced a skylarking flight. Three sandhill cranes lifted off from the gravel operation south of the creek. A very large group of pelicans were roosting on the bank of the gravel ponds. Spring and cabbage white butterflies were flitting around the hilltop.
Good Birding, Scott Severs, Longmont Location: Sandstone Ranch Observation date: 3/21/09 Number of species: 27 Canada Goose 10 American Wigeon 2 Mallard 8 American White Pelican 68 Great Blue Heron 9 Bald Eagle 6 Northern Harrier 2 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Kestrel 1 Sandhill Crane 3 Killdeer 2 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Ring-billed Gull 5 Rock Pigeon 2 Belted Kingfisher 2 Northern Flicker 4 Black-billed Magpie 7 Common Raven 2 Horned Lark 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 American Robin 5 European Starling 12 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Western Meadowlark 5 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
