Here is the full report from what Bill Maynard and I saw around Pueblo City Park and other Pueblo birding locations this morning.
The highlight was a first year male (since it had some yellow on the throat) PINE WARBER, it was west of the pond in Pueblo City Park, in some tall pondarosa pine trees. It was feeding high in the pine needles and hard to see some of the time. Also, in these trees, we saw a female Williamson's Sapsucker and at least two Pygmy Nuthatches, among several other birds. Over in the eastern portion of the park there was both a juvenile and an adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, pus at least one more Pygmy Nuthatch. While we were over in the western part of the park, we decided to walk down the concrete trail to the river, along this concrete trail, we saw and heard an "Eastern" White-breasted Nuthatch. We didn't hear or see any for sure Red Crossbills or Evening Grosbeaks, that have been around City Park off and on. After Pueblo City Park, we went to the Valco Ponds parking lot, and looked at butterflies and a dragonfly that have been hanging out there recently. Then just east of the parking lot, I was hearing aSwamp Sparrow, and we saw a Marsh Wren. At Pueblo Reservoir, the best birding was from the SE Side of the lake. We had an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull swimming on the water, a Franklin's Gull sitting on the South Shore Marina tires, and two Common Loons out on the lake. We also heard a calling flyover Lapland Longpsur. Brandon Percival Pueblo West, 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
