Friday afternoon, 2-3:30 pm, before the blizzard started, I birded *Crystal Lakes* just south of Leadville, with highlights being *American Bittern, Marsh Wren,Yellow-headed Blackbird, Com. Yellowthroat*. (complete list below) and *Twin Lakes* at the southern edge of the county had Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, 2 Semipalmated Plovers and at least 75 Horned Larks flocking on the western mudflat viewable from Moache Landing. This morning we have 4-6" of snow on the ground and still falling.
Tim Kalbach Leadville, CO Crystal Lakes only: Canada Goose 2 Gadwall 4 Mallard 2 Cinnamon Teal 3 Northern Shoveler 2 Green-winged Teal 6 Ring-necked Duck 2 Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 1 Common Merganser 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 American Bittern 1 White-faced Ibis 3 Northern Harrier 1 Swainson's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Kestrel 1 Prairie Falcon 1 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 6 Wilson's Snipe 1 Wilson's Phalarope 30 California Gull 4 Black-billed Magpie 1 Common Raven 2 Tree Swallow 2 Cliff Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 3 Marsh Wren 2 Mountain Bluebird 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Chipping Sparrow 2 Brewer's Sparrow 1 Vesper Sparrow 4 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Western Meadowlark 3 Yellow-headed Blackbird 1 Brewer's Blackbird 8 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en
