[cobirds] Highline Canal, Douglas Co. 5/23 -- Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Yellow Warbler

[Jim and Ann Nelson]

We're visiting from Maryland.  We had a nice walk this morning along the Highline Canal in Douglas County starting at County Line Road just west of McClellan Reservoir and walking south and west.  Highlights were a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak singing and consuming lots of insects in a cottonwood near the bridge that crosses the canal from the paved parking lot just off County Line Road, a male Wood Duck posing on a limb over the Canal, and more Yellow Warblers than we have EVER seen.  They outnumbered any other species we saw and heard (even the House Wrens that were a close second).  Complete list from my eBird report is below.  (By the way, if any Colorado eBird reviewers/administrators are reading this, it would help to add "swallow sp" to the eBird list of species for Colorado.  We had lots of high-flying swallows that we could not identify to species.  This is an option that is available when I report to eBird in Maryland.)

Jim Nelson
Bethesda, Maryland

Location: Highline Canal, Douglas Co.
Observation date: 5/23/09
Number of species: 34

Wood Duck 1
Mallard 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Swainson's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 9
Broad-tailed Hummingbird 1
Northern Flicker 5
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Western Kingbird 5
Common Raven 5
Violet-green Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 24
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
American Robin 16
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 16
Cedar Waxwing 10
Yellow Warbler 25
Spotted Towhee 1
Lark Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Brewer's Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
Bullock's Oriole 9
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 10
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