Katrina Stowasser and I spent the past 2 days Eastern CO. Interesting birds include:
7/12 Highway 109 just south of Higbee Valley Road (Otero) Barn Owl - 1 Upland Sandpiper - 1 calling flying over while we were watching the Barn Owl Common Poorwill - 1 Cottonwood Canyon Indigo Bunting - 6 (Baca and Las Animas) KENTUCKY WARBLER - 1 (Baca) about a mile south of the large parking area. Singing, responded to playback but never saw the bird. Rufous Hummingbird - 1 (Baca and Las Animas) flew around and then through the large parking area. Rufous-crowned Sparrow - 1 (Las Animas) Orchard Oriole - 2 (Baca) Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 (Baca and Las Animas) Ladder-backed Woodpecker - 3 (Baca and Las Animas) Western Screech-Owl - 2 (Baca) 2 Miles south of Springfield on Highway 287 (Baca) Long-billed Curlew - 12 in a field on the west side of the road Neenoshe Reservoir (Kiowa) Mountain Plover - 1 running around at the edge of the reservoir Snowy Plover - 36 Western, Semipalmated, Baird's, and Least Sandpipers - couple hundered peeps Long-billed Curlew - 1 Lake Cheraw and Lake Holbrook (Otero) had very high water levels, with very few birds. Dairy Farm on the north side of Lake Meredith (Crowley) Semipalmated Sandpiper - 3 Western Sandpiper - 1 Marbled Godwit - 1 Stilt Sandpiper - 4 Bonaparte's Gull - 2 Franklin's Gull - 1 Lake Meredith (Crowley) Black Tern - 4 Lake Henry (Crowley) LAUGHING GULL - 1 adult, photographed in flight, it flew south towards Meredith as we were studying it. Flagler SWA (Kit Carson) BLACK RAIL - 1 calling in the marsh below the dam just as it was getting to dark to see. 7/13 Bonny Reservoir area (Yuma) - It was slightly raining, foggy, and windy. Didn't find most of the birds we were looking for. Bell's Vireo - 1 Field Sparrow - 1 County Road Y, about a mile south of the Yuma/Phillips county line (Yuma) SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER - 1, appears to be the same bird Joe Roller photographed on the 12th. We saw the bird sitting at the top of a dead tree as we were slowly driving by, but we were not able to stop as the roads were very muddy and I was afraid that if we stopped we would get stuck. Frenchman Creek SWA (Phillips) Bell's Vireo - 2 We skipped out on Tamarack Ranch and Jumbo Reservoir due to road conditions in the area. We birded our way back to Loveland, but didn't find anything else of interest. Dirt road conditions made it difficult to go most places. Cole Wild Loveland -- 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.
