COBirders, The scheduled CFO field trip to the TNC's Fox Ranch property produced lots of migrant sparrows in the tallgrass prairie, in brush piles, and in the rolling hills with horseweed, cholla, and little bluestem grasses.
Highlights from 2 hours on Friday and from Saturday morning included: SPRAGUE'S PIPIT - 3 - not seen by all, one, and later two more flushed from the ground LECONTE'S SPARROW - 1 rufous-rumped individual only seen by a few, but seen multiple times, mostly in flight Grasshopper Sparrow - a minimum of 6 identified, mostly in flight, with additional likely candidates seen flying away "RED" FOX SPARROW - 1 perched in a tree for photographs Field Sparrow - 7 on Friday, at least two on Saturday Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 heard this morning before most people arrived Orchard Oriole, 1st year male photographed, a very late migrant. All the participants wish to express their gratitude to The Nature Conservancy for allowing the Colorado Field Ornithologists' field trip participants to bird on TNC property and to the three watchful bulls for doing nothing more than staring at us in disbelief as we walked through their pasture. Bill Maynard Colorado Springs ____________________________________________________________ HR Masters Degree Online Earn Your Master's Degree in Human Resources Development - 100% Online http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cb0fc72993a1d7e48st05duc -- 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.
