County ag lands are waking up. Elena Klaver and I took a first round of our BU owl transect route on the AHI/turkey farm assignment and found all the early spring arrivals, with the following little highlights:
--golden coyote, asleep in the late afternoon sun. --bald eagle, probably one of the infamously non-nesting Double-Dove pair, enjoying the same sunny moment near nameless farm pond. --imm. or fem. (we think the former) N. harrier hunting (an encore from last visit) in same area; so far no sign of mature male, so nesting is probably... improbable. --the two disgruntled osprey, having given up their obsession with the telephone pole site (protected by a raven and a red-tailed hawk; worthy adversaries), have returned to the new&improved old nest site east of Lagerman Res. The male was busily bringing in sticks while the female watched from the other (not improved) platform pole. This guy knows how to impress a gal: after half a dozen stick retrieval trips, he went over to a north pond and came back with talonsful of mud to paste some of the collection together. Then he went right over to the female and asked for sex, which was granted. Then back to work on the "bower"... --the local Say's phoebes are all on last year's territories calling, but I don't hear females replying yet! Why are those females dawdling down south? Linda East of Table Mtn, north of Haystack -- 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.
