BEST DAY EVER for quantity of Mountain Plover sightings ... 43!!!
Long-billed Curlew - 16 in Nunn (almost yardbirds!)
I visited all the new burn areas and the very large one ("super burn")
marked by WCR 55 x WCR 90 X WCR 49 x WCR 86 lives up to the expected
hype! This is a traditional Mountain Plover area but not this many!
The "hot zone" is WCR 51 x WCR 86 x WCR 49 x WCR 90 the southern and
eastern burned halves--I could have thrown rocks in to that those
areas and hit plovers 99.999% of the time there were so many. If you
miss them here time to get your vision prescription checked-haha.
Bring a scope they are towards center of section. There were paired
clusters and groups of 4->8 hanging out.
Mountain Plover
WCR 102/37 - 2
WCR 114/37 (three burn areas) - 7
WCR 49/114 (burn area) - 1 (also, two Burrowing Owls)
WCR 51 x WCR 86 x WCR 49 x WCR 90 (burn area) - 8 (looking N of 86) +
22 (looking W of 51) = 30
WCR 90/51 (burn) - 3
Long-billed Curlew
WCR 96/98 (burn) - 9 (one mile east of my yard)
WCR 37 between 100/102 on E in grassy areas - 7
WCR 100/37 Great Horned owl still on nest
WCR 102/37 Great Horned Owl still on nest
Lots of McCown's Longspurs at burn areas--one Chestnut-collared
Longspur at WCR 49/114
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
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