Eight of us spent 4 days on the Comanche, mainly in Carrizo, Cottonwood, Picture and Holt Canyons, as well as the Everett Ranch, where we stayed overnights. We compiled a list of about 68 species, of which the highlights, in the order we saw them, were: Loggerhead shrike - Everett Ranch Black-chinned hummingbird - Everett Ranch Yellow-headed blackbird - Everett Ranch Curve-billed thrasher - Everett Ranch Eastern phoebe - Carrizo Cliff swallow - Carrizo Golden eagle - Cottonwood vicinity Ladderback woodpecker - Cottonwood Bewick's wren - Cottonwood Rose-breasted grosbeak - Cottonwood Blue grosbeak - Cottonwood Mississippi kite - Cottonwood Red-headed woodpecker- Cottonwood Chihuahuan raven - Cottonwood and elsewhere Long-billed curlew - road to Picture Canyon Prairie falcon - Picture Canyon White-crowned sparrow - not unusual but evidently migrating through, in Picture Canyon Summer tanager - imm. male - Holt CanyonNote: we heard NO yellow warblers, though we were in good habitat for them. Some other birders reported a Lewis' woodpecker "at the fork in the road" in Cottonwood Canyon but we didn't see it. Four bighorn sheep ewes were resting in cultivated fields in the Cottonwood Canyon bottom. Winter and spring rains have made the grassland and canyons green, and where the cattle don't eat them the wildflowers are abundant. Polly and Gene Reetz, Ed and Judy Butterfield, Janet Decker, Fred Griest, Bob and Thea Pyle .
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