Today was cool (high in low 70's) and very windy in and near Lamar (all locations Prowers). The Lamar High School woods was basically birdless, except for a dead Bullock’s Oriole male with the chest cavity eaten out and attended by large carpenter ants, a dead Northern Mockingbird (in tact), and a live Least Flycatcher. Fairmount Cemetery had a male Orchard Oriole (FOS) and a Least Flycatcher. LCC was full of school kids on a year-end field trip so I decided not to try it. Willow Valley Subdivision continues to host a male Ruby-throated Hummingbird (excellent photos obtained), a female Black-chinned Hummingbird, a female Black-headed Grosbeak, and two White-winged Doves (nest under construction in a Siberian elm). Thurston Reservoir north of town had several Black Terns, a Peregrine Falcon eating a White-faced Ibis on a ditch bank (photos obtained of the predator in a tree over the carcass and of the carcass), and three Cattle Egrets. Basically all the ducks present a month ago are gone and only coots and ruddies plus a few miscellaneous others remain. In a private ranch shelterbelt planting east of Wiley were a Tennessee Warbler, three Lazuli Buntings, a Northern Waterthrush, a Blue Grosbeak (FOS), and several Yellow-rumped Warblers (feeding on the ground with Lark Sparrows in a plowed field east of the windbreak – seemed an odd combination). Dave Leatherman Fort Collins --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php
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