Co-birders,
A personal highlight today on my section of the Fort Collins CBC was 24
Virginia Rails we detected using call-play back along a roughly 300-m stretch
of small perrenial creek flowing through cattails, just north of Ted's Place,
along highway 287 north of fort collins. most of the birds were upstream from
where the highway crosses over this creek. We walked along this here, stopping
every 25-50 m, playing a variety of mostly Virginia Rail calls (they also
responded frequently to Song Sparrow songs). At some stops we saw/heard up to
three rails simultaneously, and in many instances the rails approached us
within feet, running across the snow and through the brush. This is an
astonighing number of rails for this area, smashing our previous record of 9
birds along this same stretch of creek. Unfortunately, this creek, and the
birds, are located right where the proposed Glade Reservoir would occur.
other CBC highlights for us included Northern Pygmy-Owl, 31 American Dippers
(mainly along the north fork of the Poudre, below Seaman dam, and 42 other
species.
cheers,
Arvind Panjabi
5700' feet, Larimer County, CO
On the north slope of Milner Mtn
Mountain mahogany shrubland and grassland
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