The Greater Roadrunner population in Fremont County is sparse and quite scattered about the eastern part of the county so a sighting is always notable. I have heard from several friends that they have seen a roadrunner in the area described by Jim but I have never spotted one up in that area.
Yesterday morning I looked for the vagrant warblers found by Brandon Percival and Rich Miller this week. It was a good thing I saw the Black-throated Blue Warbler earlier as neither I, nor two other birders who searched the area in Canon City's Veteran's Park for about an hour found the Cape May or Blackburnian Warblers. There was at least one very active Yellow-rumped Warbler, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Black-capped Chickadees, juncos and a nice sized flock of Cedar Waxwings. It was interesting watching the Cedar Waxwings as they devoured the remaining fruit on the hackberry trees and I suspect grabbing some higher protein insect snacks too. I saw what is likely the same flock on the other side of the Arkansas River a few days ago descending on a few 15 foot junipers that had been loaded with juniper berries. When I returned they had stripped all of the berries from these trees except for a few sections that were very near the fairly heavy traffic near the trees. These birds are very efficient eating machines. I was able to get within about 20 feet of them and got a few close-up photos that I am putting on my blog, http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com , tonight. Today I found a Lesser Yellowlegs foraging with a Killdeer at the BLM's 'Blue Heron' area between Florence and Canon City. The irrigation ponds at this area used to serve as a migration stop-over for shorebirds and waterbirds until it was opened to the public and became primarily a place where people walk their dogs off-lead and let them chase anything that moves (note: I love dogs, I have 2 of my own but I don't let them chase/harass and stress birds and other wildlife) SeEtta Moss On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, James Mariner <[email protected]> wrote: > > It may be relatively common for folks in Fremont County and SE > Colorado in general, but I thought I should report the Roadrunner I > saw this afternoon crossing CO-115 approximately 4 mi. N of Penrose. > It's only the 2nd one I've ever seen in Colorado, the other one being > much farther S, closer to Trinidad. > > Jim Mariner > Colorado Springs > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
