I spent a few hours at Sandsage SWA today. It is a few miles west of Wray, just south of US34. Most unusual bird was a male red-bellied woodpecker. Also had a ton of flickers, some with red shafts and some with yellow, with lots of hybridization showing amongst them. A downie woodpecker rounded out the sampling for that family of birds; I didn't see any of the red-headed woodpeckers that usually frequent the area. Raptors included a ferruginous hawk, a couple of red-taileds and a harrier, along with several kestrels. Fair-sized flocks of red-winged blackbirds with only one or two males amongst them and no other species flocking with them. Sparrows included white-crowned, song, tree, junco. Lots of American goldfinches with a few pine siskins mixed in. One lonely meadowlark. Several robins, a few eastern bluejays, seven turkeys. Flushed a half-dozen mallards off the river (north fork of the Republican runs through the SWA). Pheasants honking everywhere. Also saw my first-of-season rough-legged hawk along US 34 near the Yuma/Washington county line. Kevin Corwin west Centennial Arapahoe County
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