Hermit Thrush today-thought for sure we'd get his "cousin" first (Swainson's).
Habitat: 35 acres CRP property (old agricultural fields being converted to native grasses). Fourteen feeders, cracked corn, whole sunflower, sunflower chips, safflower, white proso millet, nyger and two heated water sources. We've landscaped (bird-friendly) 12,000 sq ft within our fenced backyard, phase II completed. Landscape (Nunn, Colorado): Hackberry - 3 Dwarf Rabbitbrush (Green/Blue) - 21 Austrian Pine - 8 Witchita Blue Juniper - 8 Spanish Goldbroom - 8 Radian Crabapple - 2 Fat Albert Spruce - 3 Canada Red Cherry Tree - 5 Dark Knight Spirea - 5 Straight Plains Cottonwood - 2 Blue Spruce - 1 Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany - 11 Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn - 1 Nanking Cherry - 3 Pawnee Butte Sandcherry - 5 New Mexican Privet - 3 Grow-low Sumac - 7 Western Sandcherry - 5 Lilac - 10 White Snowberry - 9 Russian Hawthorn - 1 Patmore Ash - 2 Thunderchild Crabapple - 6 Dogwood (Yellow/Red-twigged) - 15 Yard Birds (Nunn, Colorado) 94 species total (since November 2002): Sand Hill Crane Great Blue Heron Mallard Canada Goose Snow Goose American White Pelican Turkey Vulture Sharp-Shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Harrier Swainson's Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-Legged Hawk Golden Eagle Bald Eagle American Kestrel Prairie Falcon Merlin Northern Bobwhite Chukar Ring-Necked Pheasant Ring-billed Gull Killdeer Rock Pidgeon Eurasian-Collared Dove Mourning Dove Great-Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Barn Owl Common Nighthawk Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Black-Chinned Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Northern Flicker (Yellow and Red-Shafted) Eastern Kingbird Western Kingbird Western Wood-Pewee Say's Phoebe Northern Shrike Loggerhead Shrike Eastern Bluejay Clark's Nutcracker Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow European Starling Black-Billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Common Grackle Horned Lark Rock Wren House Wren Mountain Bluebird American Robin Hermit Thrush Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Yellow Warbler Wilson's Warbler Yellow-Rumped Warbler Lark Bunting Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Clay-Colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Chipping Sparrow White-Crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon, Slate-Colored) Lapland Longspur Chestnut-Collared Longspur McCown's Longspur Brewer's Blackbird Great-Tailed Grackle Yellow-Headed Blackbird Red-Winged Blackbird Bobolink Western Meadowlark American Goldfinch Pine Siskin House Finch (Normal, Yellow Variant) Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch House Sparrow Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn/CO We're Colorado Birders, Are You? http://ColoradoBirder.ning.com/ -- 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
