Mark Peterson, Lisa Edwards, Kathy Mihm-Dunning, Steve Larson and I started out birding various locations in the town of Holyoke, Colorado (Phillips County). In the snow covered Cemetery (4-6 inches) we found a juv. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, White-throated and Field Sparrows, a lingering Wilson's Warbler and Mark located a nice BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER that everyone got to see well (including the light colored "braces" on the bird's back).
Holyoke City Park had a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-bellied Woodpecker and many Yellow-rumped Warblers and American Robins. Little could be found at the Courthouse. At that time Mark left to head south and the rest of us headed north. On Sedgwick County Road 49 (just north of the Phillips/Sedgwick line) we found a Grasshopper Sparrow and a Harris's Sparrow. Farther north at Sand Draw SWA we found few birds but did have a lingering House Wren, an Eastern Screech-Owl and seven of the more expected, resident Eastern Bluebirds. The town of Ovid had an Eastern Screech-Owl and the usual White-breasted and Red-breasted Nuthatches that we found at almost EVERY location we visited. Jumbo Reservoir had four Forster's Terns, two Black-bellied Plovers, a Pectoral Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs and a few other shorebirds (including a large plover) that we could not identify due to the distance to the islands that the birds were on. Little Jumbo Reservoir had a flock of 36 Long-billed Dowitchers and a Greater Yellowlegs. Duck Creek SWA had TWO Eastern Screech-Owls, a Swamp Sparrow and a Winter Wren and another lingering Wilson's Warbler. All in all a nice day out (after the 18F morning start) with a number of fall migrants still passing through. What will the next "wave" produce? Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado -- 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.
