This morning, in a walk around Manitou Lake before the hurricane gusts start blowing, I had FOS song sparrows and red-winged blackbirds.
The American Dipper is on nest inside the dam. Male is bringing in food. But since I don't see the female make any feeding trips; or even leave the nest, I assume the young are not hatched yet. The lake is over 50% ice free and should probably be completely free by this weekend. Had American Crows in pairs everywhere, and all collecting sticks. Not sure if I had witnessed this before, but I had both individuals of a pair bringing sticks simultaneously to the same nest. Usually seems as though the male is mate-guarding instead of collecting - but not this pair at this time. This one nest already had the base created and the pair was adding fine twigs. Bluebirds, both mountain and western, showed up Wednesday in northern Teller Co - at least my first sightings. Had a FOS Killdeer yesterday. Jeff J Jones ( <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]) Teller County - 8500' - Montane Woodlands 36 species total so far this year in Teller Co Species: 36 - Subspecies: 0 - Forms: 36 Total Records: 36 NAME WHEN SEEN LOCATION 36 Song Sparrow 3/25/2011 Manitou Lake 35 Killdeer 3/24/2011 Manitou Lake 34 Western Bluebird 3/23/2011 Teller County, CO 33 Mountain Bluebird 3/23/2011 Teller County, CO 32 American Dipper 3/21/2011 Manitou Lake 31 Green-winged Teal 3/21/2011 Manitou Lake 30 Canada Goose 3/21/2011 Manitou Lake 29 Gadwall 3/21/2011 Manitou Lake 28 Mallard 3/21/2011 Manitou Lake 27 American Robin 3/13/2011 Home 26 Belted Kingfisher 3/11/2011 Manitou Lake 25 Wild Turkey 3/6/2011 Mule Creek Trail 24 Red-winged Blackbird 3/6/2011 Teller County, CO 23 Horned Lark 3/6/2011 Divide 22 American Crow 3/1/2011 Teller County, CO 21 Rock Pigeon 3/1/2011 Teller County, CO 20 Red-tailed Hawk 3/1/2011 Teller County, CO 19 Common Raven 2/8/2011 Home 18 Northern Shrike 1/28/2011 Trout Creek - Rd 339 to Campground 17 Black-capped Chickadee 1/25/2011 Home 16 House Finch 1/24/2011 Home 15 Evening Grosbeak 1/20/2011 Sunnywood Estates 14 Northern Flicker 1/13/2011 Home 13 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1/12/2011 Home 12 Brown Creeper 1/11/2011 Home 11 Pine Siskin 1/10/2011 Home 10 White-breasted Nuthatch 1/10/2011 Home 9 Black-billed Magpie 1/10/2011 Home 8 Pygmy Nuthatch 1/10/2011 Home 7 Steller's Jay 1/10/2011 Home 6 Hairy Woodpecker 1/10/2011 Home 5 Downy Woodpecker 1/5/2011 Home 4 Mountain Chickadee 1/5/2011 Home 3 Eurasian Collared-Dove 1/5/2011 Home 2 Dark-eyed Junco 1/5/2011 Home 1 Cassin's Finch 1/5/2011 Home Birder's Diary - www.BirdersDiary.com - 3/25/2011 -- 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.
