Hello Fellow Birders, Yesterday we had to make a quick run to Pueblo...on our way we stopped at Lathrop State Park while there we saw a total of 6 mature Bald Eagles and one immature for a total of 7...that is quite a large number for such a small lake. They were actively harassing the goldeneyes, mergansers, pintails, gulls and mallards. We did not have the spotting scope with us so we did look at the waterfowl very closely. We did see an American Crow with very white wing patches. Have checked our Peterson, Stokes and Sibley's guides for this. The only reference to this was found in Sibley's stating "individuals with variable white wing-patches are rare but regular". His was the only guide with a depiction.
Last night and this morning's snow has attracted a crowd at the feeders including: Northern Flicker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker White-breasted Nuthatch Spotted Towhee Song Sparrow American Tree Sparrow over 50 Dark-eyed Juncos (including our one partially leucistic individual who only shows up when the weather is bad) an equal number of American Goldfinch 1 lone Lesser Goldfinch Pine Siskin 23 Eurasian Collared-Doves - after few numbers for years we are suddenly overrun! 50-60 Red-winged Blackbirds Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee European Starlings 25-30 Evening Grosbeaks 35-40 Pinyon Jays Stellar's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Black-billed Magpies 25-30 House Finches Polly Wren Neldner La Veta, 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.
