Highlights from today near Lamar (Prowers County) just over into Bent County
North of Lamar (49Rd/TTRd)
Merlin (female "prairie" race)
Thurston Reservoir
White Pelican (1)
[probably other stuff but I had a confrontation with a hunter who didn't like
"bird watchers who come around just to scare the birds away from the hunters"]
Highway 50/287 west of Lamar
Black-crowned Night-Heron (immature) roadkill
Arkansas River at Prowers (actually in Bent County) Bent 34.5 Rd south of JJ
Long-billed Dowitcher (2)
Sandhill Crane (1)
Wilson's Snipe
Greater Yellowlegs (5)
Harris's Sparrow (1)
Lincoln's Sparrow (1)
Prowers HH Rd 2 miles east of place name of Prowers
Swainson's Hawk (1 juv) late
Riverside Cemetery
Red-breasted Nuthatch (1)
EVENING GROSBEAK (1 flyover going s to n)
[Learned something about hackberry psyllids - those leaves which fall
prematurely due to frost before adult psyllid emergence (not normal but
apparently the case this year because of our cool spring and rather cool
summer), still produce psyllids. The psyllids, unphased by the freeze, emerge
from nipplegalls on fallen leaves and then fly to overwintering sites in tree
bark crevices nearby. Such psyllids will likely escape migrant passerines (I
saw no typical psyllid-eating bird species foraging among fallen leaves) but
will still be available trunk bark-gleaner species (creepers, kinglets,
nuthatches, chickadees, etc.) during winter and presumably during spring
migration to passerines when they leave overwintering sites and fly back up
into the crowns to lay eggs on newly expanding buds/leaves. Apparently some
normal-albeit-a-bit-late emergence already occurred and is on-going at present
from unfallen leaves, as the hackberries continue to support large numbers of
yellow-rumps, a lone Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and the nuthatch.]
Fairmount Cemetery
Golden-crowned Kinglet (1 male) still present, may winter here
Total for Lamar over the last two days: 62 species
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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