Dear Birders, Late yesterday afternoon, I spent a couple of hours birding on portions of St. Vrain Rd, north to Hygiene Road and Route 66, with a leg into Lyons onto Old Saint Vrain Road, and then over to Rabbit Mountain, and back up Crane Hollow Road.
The biggest surprise was a very late Snow Goose on the southwest side of the intersection of 63rd and Ute Highway (Route 66), grazing with Canada Geese. Old Saint Vrain was very quiet with a lone Cooper's Hawk to add a bit of excitement. On the road into Rabbit Mountain, I saw a few blackbirds, scoped the prairie dog towns for Burrowing Owls, (none), and noted a single Say's Phoebe. Hygiene Road was hopping, with the heron rookery nests quite full, many Kestrels about, a kettle of 9 Turkey Vultures and a mature Bald Eagle cruising the fields. Other sightings as I drove and walked a bit: 7 White face Ibis 14 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Killdeer 1 American Avocet 4 Snipe 2 Western Grebes 4 Ring-neck Ducks 2 Mallards 1 Osprey carrying fish 1 Osprey on nest 3 Red-tail Hawks 2 Swainson's Hawks, 1 Dark phase 1 each male and female Northern Harriers 1 Loggerhead Shrike 12 Tree Swallows 11 Meadowlarks 3 Mourning Doves 8 Eurasian Collared Doves 7 Flickers Many Common Grackles Too Many Starlings 15 Red-wing Blackbirds 13 Magpies Another Say's Phoebe 17-20 Great Blue Herons between the two rookeries 1 Barn Owl 3 Great Horned Owls Cheers, Pam Piombino -- 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.
