In Hays, KS (sort of west in KS) on the evening of Aug 31 several KS
birders found 3-4 Pine Warblers at the KSU Ag station. On Sept. 1 they
found another one in Colby, KS (about 30 miles from Colorado) also at a
KSU Ag station. Combined with the Pine Warbler sightings reported from
eastern Colorado yesterday it sounds like a trend.
During migration many Kansas birders travel west to the border counties
with Colorado. It rarely crosses the mind of the typical Kansas birder
to cross the state line. There is too much state and county listing to
do. The same dynamic plays out in reverse on the other side of the
line. These HIgh Plains border counties are in the same "eco-zone" and
share a lot of the same appeal to birders from the two states but the
exchange of information across the Maginot Line is generally confined to
browsing the various listservs after the fact. Not much to be done
about it I guess. Most of the people roaming around out there are state
and county listers and that isn't going to change. There are exceptions
to ALL of these statements of course but the trend is there.
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Pete Janzen Wichita, KS [email protected]
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