Birders,
I stopped at Tempel Grove in NE Bent County briefly around 10 a.m. This
morning. I had a singing male Northern Parula in tall cottonwoods west
of the bridge that crosses the canal. A few minutes later, I found a
vocal White-eyed Vireo. It sang rather persistently from low perches in
the understory on the north side of the canal both east and west of the
bridge. It appears that a pair of Eastern Phoebes is nesting under the
bridge. I had a Green-tailed Towhee in the brush pile 100 yards west of
the bridge.
My walk around Neegronda Reservoir produced 12 species of shorebirds (no
Piping Plovers, though). Nothing especially rare. I did chance upon a
Snowy Egret.
I ventured south of Lamar to get to know some of the Atlas Blocks I'm
doing for the COBBA II. I found a nesting pair of Eastern Bluebirds in a
dead cottonwood 100 yards south of Prowers County Road L, three miles
west of US 287 on where it crosses Clay Creek. The road is public, but
everything else is private.
My biggest surprises came at the end of the day at John Martin Reservoir
(Bent County). I had a close-up look at a breeding-plumaged Pacific
Loon, which swam out into the middle of the lake before I could
photograph it. Finally, on the north side of the lake, I had a
second-winter Great Black-backed Gull with the large flock of gulls.
There are now six Piping Plovers back, all at John Martin, and all in
areas protected by closures.
Sincerely, Duane Nelson
Las Animas, Bent County, CO
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