I went down to the South Mesa Trailhead and birded the Homesead and Towhee trails for three hours this morning, and my list is posted below. Being from Louisiana, it's odd to see and hear Yellow-breasted Chat in habitat like that. Back home, they're really thick in cutover (second-growth pine) areas. The Lazuli Buntings and Black-headed Grosbeaks were singing like crazy, and so was the one MacGillivray's. The end of its song sounded so much like a Kentucky Warbler that it literally stopped me in my tracks.
Good birding, John Dillon vacationing from the Louisiana heat Location: Mesa Trail Complex Observation date: 5/29/10 8:15AM - 11:15AM Notes: all of Homestead trail and Towhee trail. Number of species: 29 Canada Goose 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Broad-tailed Hummingbird 10 Western Wood-Pewee 3 Warbling Vireo 2 Steller's Jay 3 Blue Jay 2 Common Raven 1 Mountain Chickadee 1 House Wren 9 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6 American Robin 7 Gray Catbird 6 Cedar Waxwing 9 Virginia's Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 10 MacGillivray's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 9 Spotted Towhee 20 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Western Tanager 2 Black-headed Grosbeak 6 Lazuli Bunting 12 Brown-headed Cowbird 9 Bullock's Oriole 7 Lesser Goldfinch 4 American Goldfinch 6 -- 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]. 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.
