I made a quick stop at Turkey Creek Ranch this morning and saw at
least 8 Lewis Woodpeckers in the picnic area alone. My question is:
does anyone have any idea why there are so many of these relatively
rare for Colorado birds concentrated in this area? I wonder if the
large forest fire that occurred on Fort Carson adjacent to the ranch
about a year and a half ago has anything to do with it. I welcome any
ideas.
Besides the many Lewis Woodpeckers, the ranch was otherwise quite birdy:
Location: Turkey Creek Ranch
Observation date: 9/19/10
Number of species: 11
Lewis' Woodpecker 8
Western Scrub-Jay 12
Black-billed Magpie 1
American Crow 2
Western Bluebird 40
European Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Wilson's Warbler 1
Chipping Sparrow 10
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
House Finch 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Gary Koehn
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