Cobirders,
This afternoon, I headed south from Las Animas to work on two priority
blocks assigned to me for the Breeding Bird Atlas II project. In the
Toonerville block, I found a molting male Summer Tanager. It was in one
of the elm groves adjacent to an abandoned homestead in Toonerville
(population: zero). Although it was almost certainly a migrant, this
location is not all that far away from where Roger Linfield first
confirmed nesting of this species in Colorado in 2008, at the junction
of Withers and Picketwire Canyons in the Comanche National Grassland in
adjacent Otero County.
Most species present in canyonlands habitat in Baca, Las Animas and
Otero Counties can be found in this part of Bent County, either here
(where all the property is privately owned, and permission is required
for entry), or at Setchfield State Wildlife Area, where public access is
allowed.
Duane Nelson
Las Animas, Bent County, CO
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