Yesterday evening I got to spend a couple hours at Manitou Lake in Teller Co. Weather was fantastic.
. It was very birdy. Hundreds of Yellow-rumped Warblers. . Soras and Virginia Rails readily seen. . Nice look at an adult Cooper's Hawk. . Indigo Bunting was still hanging out in the same area as a week before. More molted into fall plumage now. . Probably about 30 Western Wood-Pewees. House Wrens and Gray Catbirds in every corner. . One Eastern Kingbird and about a dozen Western Kingbirds were present. That doesn't happen often up here. Manitou Lake can and does get quite birdy for a couple weeks in mid-August and then dies down going into September. Probably had immatures of Brewers Sparrows, MacGillivray's Warblers, Common Yellowthroats and a few others I didn't get to ID confidently. The willows were simply thick in every corner. 39 species in all. Complete list below. Jeff J Jones ( <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]) Teller County - 8500' - Montane Woodlands FIRST SIGHTINGS: World: 0, Location: 0, Annual: 6, World Annual: 2 Species: 39 - Subspecies: 0 - Forms: 39 Total Records: 39 Canada Goose Branta canadensis Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Green-winged Teal Anas crecca Canvasback [a] Aythya valisineria Common Merganser Mergus merganser American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Cooper's Hawk [a] Accipiter cooperii Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Virginia Rail Rallus limicola Sora Porzana carolina Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus Western Wood-Pewee Contopus sordidulus Western Kingbird [a] Tyrannus verticalis Eastern Kingbird [a*] Tyrannus tyrannus American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Pygmy Nuthatch Sitta pygmaea House Wren Troglodytes aedon Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata Wilson's Warbler [a*] Cardellina pusilla Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina Lark Sparrow [a] Chondestes grammacus Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra American Goldfinch Spinus tristis Birder's Diary - www.BirdersDiary.com - 8/20/2012 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
