Hi Everyone-- Today 1/31 I went birding in Pueblo, Red Creek Canyon, Canon City, and Pueblo Reservoir. I found the Pine Warbler around 8am in the pines just in front of the Administration building (near the duck pond) at Pueblo City Park. Soon thereafter, Brandon Percival et al. found me. We all gawked at the warbler until about 9, then were distracted by a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker getting into a tussle with a Hairy Woodpecker over the sapsucker's diggings. A Great Horned Owl slept through it all in an adjacent tree. The Pine Warbler was not in a flock this morning, but a flock of twittering Bushtits led me to the right spot.
I then went west to Red Creek Road, and drove it end to end. I saw 3 Prairie Falcons, plus lots of bluebirds (Western at the low end, Mountain higher up), solitaires, and robins in the junipers. No roadrunners. In Canon City, I stopped at Centennial Park, Tunnel Road, and the abbey. No Golden-crowned Sparrow (the sparrow flocks were very skittish), no sapsuckers. I noticed that the Tunnel Road Trail is still officially closed, but people were walking up there. In the afternoon, I went to Pueblo Reservoir SWA and scoped the ice line. I could hear the Long-tailed Duck singing (almost yodeling to hit the last note an octave above the first), but it took a while to see him among the many goldeneyes (all Common here) and mergansers (one Hooded, dozens of Red-breasted and Common). Tucked in against the ice farther west, I found one male Barrow's Goldeneye. Two Common Loons were also in the area. At the end of West Fishing Road (inside the state park near the north marina), I found a Juniper Titmouse in its eponymous tree. I went home by way of Peyton, and was privileged to see the Snowy Owl catch a rodent by launching himself from a rooftop. This is no starving waif. Mark Miller Longmont, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds". 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en Visit the CFO Website at: www.cfo-link.org
