A trip to Valco Ponds and Pueblo Lake SP found some good birds. Finished at Fountain Creek Reg Park in El Paso County; where I was skunked again on the winter wren.
I did finally find the black phoebe after two previous attempts failed last year at Valco Ponds. Link below to map where I found one individual. Also had American Avocet, Herring Gull at Valco and a Say's Phoebe below the dam. Pretty sure I spotted 2 terns on the gull island from afar, but by the time I got close enough to take a look, they had departed. Map of Valco Ponds area where Black Phoebe was seen: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8 <http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=38.261873,-104.700952 &spn=0.013917,0.017574&t=h&z=16&msid=200935023114083776748.00049e726183d8012 fd0a> &hl=en&msa=0&ll=38.261873,-104.700952&spn=0.013917,0.017574&t=h&z=16&msid=20 0935023114083776748.00049e726183d8012fd0a Complete list below. Jeff J Jones ( <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]) Teller County - 8500' - Montane Woodlands PUEBLO COUNTY, CO - 1 House Sparrow Passer domesticus PUEBLO LAKE - 5 Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya Common Raven Corvus corax VALCO PONDS - 27 Canada Goose Branta canadensis Gadwall Anas strepera Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Bufflehead Bucephala albeola Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus Common Merganser Mergus merganser Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis American Coot Fulica americana Killdeer Charadrius vociferus American Avocet Recurvirostra americana Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis Herring Gull Larus argentatus Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus American Robin Turdus migratorius European Starling Sturnus vulgaris Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) coronata Dendroica coronata coronata Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus Birder's Diary - www.BirdersDiary.com - 3/14/2011 -- 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.
