Cobirders, I continued my trek through the southeast corner of our state--far from released bird controversy today. Nevertheless I would characterize today as a NAFTA express day--continuous 35 MPH south winds clearing everything from south of the border to north of the border. As a result things were rather dull today. Best birds were a Northern Waterthrush below the Two Buttes (formerly known as) Reservoir and a yellow/red first year male Summer Tanager in Las Animas County about mid-way between Kim and Cottonwood Canyon. Some might offer a Google Maps tinyurl with a pin in it, I will be even more precise--look for the only tree on the shortest route between those two places.
Also in Kim was a really smashing Black-chinned Hummingbird (There is a very nice lady--Judy--with great feeders--seed and juice--in the SE corner of town if you happen tht way. She also had about 30 Pine Siskins.) The aforementioned road between Kim and Cottonwood also had about 2/3 of the known population of un-caged Cassin's Sparrows. I also made the trip to Burchfield SWA east of Walsh--probably the state's southeastern-most SWA. It was almost totally dry except for a couple of Last Chance like water holes. It has many acres of big, mature trees with lots of understory and on the right day (i.e. one where there are conditions other than a 35 MPH south wind) it could be really amazing. Today it was too bad that it wasn't in Kansas as the best birds were our own mountain birds like Western Tanager, Hermit Thrush and Olive-sided Flycatcher. Even American Crow and Downy Woodpecker were probably of some note for Baca County. Be forewarned, however--wear long sleeves if you visit. Bill Kaempfer Boulder -- 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.
