Hello Birders, I spent almost all day yesterday at the Pawnee National Grasslands. I got some excellent tips from Peter Gent. Actually, to call them "tips" is an understatement; they were more like directions of precise places to look for my target species. Thanks so much, Peter!
I saw the following: 1 Chestnut-collared Longspur 7 (or so) McCown's Longspurs, including some that were displaying. There is no other way to describe this except to say their display is simply lovely and wonderful. a plethora of Horned Larks plenty of Lark Buntings a few Vesper Sparrows 2 Chipping Sparrows W. Meadowlarks W. Kingbirds 2 Burrowing Owls at a prairie dog town at a grove of trees off some road whose number eludes me (I can look up if anyone is interested): Brown Thrasher 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 House Wren 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Say's Phoebe 2 White-crowned Sparrows C. Grackles W. Kingbirds (no shortage of those!) I checked various locations for Mt. Plover (including the spot off county roads 100 and 37), but with no luck. at Crow Valley CG, I had the following of note: 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Downy/Hairy Woodpeckers (sorry, I didn't get a very long look) 2 Brown Thrashers 1 American Kestrel On the way back home, near Walden, I think it was Walden Lake (the sign on the road I was on was for Walden Lake, but I don't know; this was about 1 mile down the road in all the water): 3 Am. Avocets American White Pelicans 1 pair of Cinnamon Teal Clark's/Western Grebe types (far away/I was too tired/lazy to set up scope) many Coots I was absolutely thrilled with the McCown's and Chestnut-collared Longspurs; they were both lifers for me and it was just terrific to see them on their breeding grounds. Thanks again, Peter! It was a terrific trip, full of terrific birds. Thanks and good birding, Holly Reinhard Hayden, 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.
