Flocks of 45, 9, and 7 Sandhill Cranes just before dark topped off a very nice (but hot - 85 degrees F) day in Paonia. The highlight of my day was seeing (while listening to!) the middle flock of 9 cranes in the same binocular view with the half moon as a backdrop!
Is anyone else noticing a slightly early push of mountain birds? I have had Mountain Chickadees twice already this young fall and today two Brown Creepers showed up. Yesterday, a flock of 14 Steller's Jays at 5000 feet elevation in sagebrush/tamarisk riparian habitat east of Delta seemed somewhat unusual too. Here is my yard list for today: Location: Rain Crow Farm Observation date: 9/28/09 Number of species: 28 Mallard 11 Turkey Vulture 2 Sandhill Crane 62 Killdeer 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Lewis's Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Western Scrub-Jay 1 Black-billed Magpie 2 American Crow 7 Common Raven 1 Mountain Chickadee 2 Brown Creeper 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 6 European Starling 4 Cedar Waxwing 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 1 Song Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel's) 2 Red-winged Blackbird 12 Pine Siskin 4 American Goldfinch 4 Evening Grosbeak 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Jason Beason Paonia - Delta County --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
