Hi, I am a youth birder from Texas and will be on vacation with my family in SW Colorado during the third week in June. I will be based out of Mancos but will be in South-central CO twice: on the way there (I'm driving) and on a day trip. I have been birding to this area once before (last summer), and added 40 of the common birds of the area to my life list (currently at 336), but there are some I didn't see, which I am hoping to add to it. I would like some advice on the best places to get my target birds (list below). Any info on where to see them at this time of the year would be appreciated.
Target birds: Birds which are more important to me [based on their range] are marked with * Common Merganser Gunnison Sage- and Dusky Grouse* White-tailed Ptarmigan* Ring-necked Pheasant* Chukar* Clark's Grebe* Golden Eagle Northern Goshawk Ferruginous Hawk* Virginia Rail Sora Mountain Plover* Band-tailed Pigeon Long-eared, Burrowing, and Boreal Owls* Spotted, Western Screech-, Flammulated, Burrowing, Northern Pygmy and Saw-whet Owls Common Poorwill Calliope Hummingbird Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Willamson's Sapsucker* Gray Flycatcher* Black Phoebe Cassin's Kingbird Steller's Jay Gray Jay* Black-capped Chickadee* Red-breasted Nuthatch Canyon Wren Veery* Sage Thrasher* MacGillivray's Warbler* Sage and Brewer's Sparrow* Lark Bunting* Yellow-headed Blackbird Bobolink* Scott's Oriole Brown-capped Rosy-finch* Red Crossbill Pine and Evening Grosbeak Of course, I realize that I can't see all of these birds and some are borderline on range but I am hoping to see many of them. Again, any comments on reliable places to see these birds would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and good birding, Caleb Frome TX Century Club Jr. Member Dallas, TX -- 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.
