Well, I only get one day for spring break, so I try to make the most of it with a long weekend. I usually like to tell my fashion conscious friends that I went to Trinidad, but this year I didn't make it, although I did get to Las Animas County twice! I started off on Friday by heading out toward La Junta. For me this is duck season, not some time in the fall when you can shoot them! And ducks were the order of the day, well the whole weekend. Henry, Meredith, Holbrook, Cheraw, Adobe Creek, Thurston, Maria, Orlando--ducks, ducks and more ducks. Lots of Ruddys and Canvasbacks; a fair smattering of both scaup when I wanted to put the effort into them, Cinnamon and Blue-winged Teal joining their less migratory Green-winged cousins. All the other dabblers and divers, too. Not too much that was odd, but I though it stood out that at Lake Hasty there were three ducks--two Red-breasted and one Hooded Merganser. Saturday was not the most pleasant--and dirt roads took it out of me all weekend long--but it was still neat to see about 2,500 Sandhills around Thurston and Nee Noshe. Wandering down to Carrizo Canyon was a disappointment as there was not a single bird to be found. Perhaps 50 MPH winds were to blame. Finally today I made it to La Veta where Beverly Jansen delivered big time with lots of rosies including at least a half dozen spanking Blacks and a few Gray-crowned (most were Browned-capped). The town was full of Evening Grosbeaks, too, everywhere! I hope all of you had good birding this weekend, too. Bill Kaempfer Boulder
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