Greetings Again,
Today I started at Bonny Lake (which, for those who don't know, will never be a lake again due to lost water-rights arguments with KS and NE; the campgrounds are already closed, though one can walk in), and then went to Stalker Pond, and finished my day with a "what-the-heck" visit to Eckley, just e. of Wray. At Bonny: 1 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (eastern imm) 2 Black-bellied Plover (n central shore) 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER (sw. shore) 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 CASSIN'S KINGBIRD (Foster Cpgrd) 12 Eastern Bluebird (Wagon Wheel Cgrd) 1 YELLOW WARBLER (per ebird, very late) 2 White-throated Sparrows 1 Lazuli Bunting The Red-shouldered Hawk found by parking at a pull-off past Foster Campground. This pull-off has a yellow garbage can by it, and the dirt track one might otherwise drive towards the lake is blocked by 3 pink-orange boulders. This is one of several similar pull-offs (but with different landmarks) and is 0.8 miles before the road turns sharply left, away from lake and into grasslands. The bird flew out of some willows and into tall cottonwoods, where it skulked, and I could not refind it despite being (methinks) directed towards it by Blue Jays. Well streaked below, like some juv rufous-morph RT Hawks back in Washington State, but very much unlike our RT Hawks, especially eastern ones. No patagail marks on underwings, longish tail look.... The willows were packed with birds and yielded the Yellow Warbler, one WT Sparrow, Laz Bunting, Eastern Phoebe. Should've spent more time hammering that area, as the campgrounds were pretty dull. Stalker L, just outside of Wray: Philadelphia Vireo: In parking area. Fully yellow beneath, quite green back, dark lores. 8!! Field Sparrows 1 White-throated Sparrow Eckley 2 White-winged Doves 1 Common Nighthawk (late per ebird) Good Birding, Steve Mlodinow Longmont 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.
