Today, in El Paso County, highlights . Big Johnson Res held many waterfowl - ice free. Best was a couple Barrow's Goldeneyes. A couple horned grebes, one in almost breeding plumage and another in mid-molt. Pretty sure I had a prairie falcon far off (lots of swim) over the lake and fields to the north.
. At Chico Basic Ranch (100 yrds south of HQ) a ladder-backed woodpecker. Also great-tailed grackles and cinnamon teals. . Hundreds and hundreds of migrating bluebirds along Squirrel Creek Rd and vicinity. Mostly mountain bluebird flocks, but a few westerns. They did not seem to be mixing. One flock of mountain bluebirds had to number > 500+ along Squirrel Ck Rd, and when we stopped they took to the air and climbed very high as a giant flock before moving northward. Not used to seeing that. . At the windmill grove along Hanover Rd, we flushed a great horned owl (no nest in site) and there was a singing sage thrasher on the north side of the road in the cholla. I blew off that song for the first few minutes while trying to get a good look at the owl. Not sure what I was thinking or why it didn't register. But as I walked back to the car, there it was and so was the "ah ha" moment. At my home in Teller County, cassin's finches continue in good numbers daily. After a long hiatus from my feeders, evening grosbeaks returned on March 8 and have been intermittent (here today, not tomorrow) every since. Jeff J Jones ( <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]) Teller County - 8500' - Montane Woodlands -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
