Highlights of 3 days of birding since arriving in Lamar (Prowers County) at
dusk on the 28th:
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Carolina Wren (1) extreme southeast part of the Lamar Community College Woods
in Lamar on the 30th
Brown Thrasher (1) same location as the wren on the 30th
VESPER SPARROW (1 today, in the sandy dunes along Lake Drive between Memorial
Drive and the Truck Bypass (Road 9.4), within a tenth of a mile of the bypass,
this is a crazy bird for the date anywhere in CO, feeding with a small group of
White-crowned Sparrows on wild sunflower seedheads)
Lapland Longspur (several at several locations east of Lamar on various county
roads between the Truck Bypass and Road SS between Rd 10 and Rd 18)
McCown's Longspur (several, in the vacinity of the junction of Roads SS and 18
(several miles northeast of north Lamar)
Merlin (two beautiful adult male prairie race) county roads northeast of town
Red-bellied Woodpecker (at least 3, at LCC and Willow Valley Subdivision east
of Willow Creek Park)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (at least 16, with 1 at LCC and 15 or so in the Willow
Creek Subdivision feeding on juniper berries and coming to a heated water bath)
Common Grackle (1 at suet and unfrozen water bath in Willow Creek Subdivision)
White-winged Dove (4 associated with big Tree-of-Heaven on nw corner of S. 1st
St. and Walnut)
Mourning Dove (few in Willow Valley Subdivision, being bullied away from water
bath by Eurasian Collared-Damneddoves)
Pine Siskin (small number in Lamar this winter, far fewer than last year or the
year before)
Scaled Quail (group of at least 30 on the various streets running east from
Memorial Drive just north of Fairmount Cemetery in Lamar, best group I've seen
since the big blizzard of a few years ago)
Northern Bobwhite (1) in with the Scaled Quail (could be a bird raised locally
and released, but I counted it since it didn't respond when told to get back in
the coop - these two species have to overlap somewhere in eastern CO and, while
the area from Bonny Res down to Sheridan Lake might be more likely, Lamar is an
OK place for this to occur)
American Coot (about 400 packed into a small area of open water at Thurston Res
n of Lamar on 12/30, about 75 today (the hole was much smaller and probably
will shrink or disappear altogether tonight))
[Did NOT see Northern Cardinals or Red Fox Sparrow at LCC as hoped, but they
could still be there, especially the cardinals.]
Total of 54 spp. so far
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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