Hhi All, Twenty-one people spent a three-day weekend (May 6-8) in SE Colorado birding the migrant traps. Most of the time was spent birding together, some time was spent in smaller groups going after target species or to target locations. Below is a summary of “notable” species seen across all parties for the whole weekend. This is just to give everyone a “heads-up” as to what is starting to show up in our great State! Great birds, great company and a fun time was had by all. A quick tally showed that we identified just shy of 200 species in the three days!
Lake Holbrook & NeeNoshe Reservoirs were visited and have excellent shorebird habitat. Trees seem a little slow in leafing out. VERY, VERY dry (might be why leafing out seems delayed). Grasslands are “crunchy”. Mississippi Kite – 27+ (catching insects over the High School Grove in Lamar) Snowy Plover - 4 Whimbrel – 4 White-rumped Sandpiper – 6 Common Poorwill – 3 Empid Flycatcher sp? - 3 Yellow-throated Vireo – 1 Cassin’s Vireo - 1 Carolina Wren – 1 singing Veery – 1 Hermit Thrush – lots Swainson’s Thrush – a few Golden-winged Warbler – 1m Orange-crowned Warbler – fair numbers Nashville Warbler – 1 Virginia’s Warbler – 3 Northern Parula – 3 Yellow Warbler – Several (still small numbers) Chestnut-sided Warbler – 1m Black-throated Blue Warbler – 1m Yellow-rumped Warbler – good numbers (more Myrtle than Audubon’s race) Glack-throated Gray Warbler – 1m Blackburnian Warbler – 1m Palm Warbler – 3 western race Blackpoll Warbler – 2m Black-and-White Warbler – 3f, 1m American Redstart – 1 Worm-eating Warbler – 1 Ovenbird – 3 Northern Waterthrush – 5 MacGillivray’s Warbler – 1 Common Yellowthroat – Several (still small numbers) Hooded Warbler – 2f, 1m Wilson’s Warbler – ~15-20 Yellow-breasted Chat – 2 Western Tanager – 2m Summer Tanager – 2f Northern Cardinal –2m, 2f Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 2m Lazuli Buniting – 5 Indigo Bunting – 4 Bobolink – 1m Bullock’s Oriole – 7 Orchard Oriole – 1m Cassin’s Finch – 1f Joey Kellner Littleton, CO -- 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.
