While traveling to Silver Mountain to see a potential client today we checked in on the Common Loon at Daigre Lake State Wildlife Area. It appears to be doing well. A Belted Kingfisher joined it.
On the Yellowstone Road we saw: A pair of Swainson's Hawks Blue Grosbeaks Pine Siskins Lesser Goldfinches (black-backed) Juvenile and adult Lazuli Buntings Red-tailed Hawk Mountain Bluebirds Western Wood-Peewees Steller's Jay Western Scrub Jays Chipping Sparrows White-breasted Nuthatches Eastern Kingbird Western Kingbirds A pair of Common Ravens Turkey Vultures Western Meadowlarks Loggerhead Shrike (the highlight of the day...first one we have seen on Huerfano County this year!) Barn Swallows (imm. and adults) American Robin Lark Sparrows Chipping Sparrows Northern Flicker As we arrived home at 151 Cty Road 359 in La Veta we were greeted by an unusual number of Western Tanagers, Evening Grobeaks, and Lark Sparrows. The numbers of these birds seem to be way up this year...at least they are in our neck of the woods. All in all it has been an exciting year for our yard. We have added 6 new birds to our yard list this year the include: Band-tailed Pigeon 5/14/2010 Orchard Oriole 5/21/2010 Baltimore Oriole 5/21/2010 (these two appeared to be traveling together...arrived and left together) Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/23/2010 Horned Lark 8/20/2010 (while this species is common in our area this is the first time they have visited the yard) Lark Sparrow 8/27/2010 (again a very common bird for our area...but the first time we have seen them in the yard) This brings our yard bird list to 113 species! Polly Wren and Paul Neldner La Veta, CO Huerfano County -- 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.
