COBirders, Today I went birding with my parents around Lincoln county. As expected, waterfowl were in good numbers at a few locations. The only noteworthy of the bunch were two GREATER SCAUP and two RED-BREASTED MERGANSERs at a private ranch. Also on the same private ranch we found a silent and methodical YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. It was preening a fair bit as it would slowly move form branch to branch and tree to tree. This was a life bird for my parents which was great as they both had reasonably good looks at the bird. We also had a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER at this location but not with the vireo which was completely alone the whole time we were with it (~45 min), it really paid little attention to us and mostly stayed about mid-canopy.
Other birds about as we were driving and walking around were three VESPER SPARROWs, three SAGE THRASHERs, one RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and one LONG-EARED OWL. For the approximately four hours of "birding" we had a decent day. I think we had a total of 61 species in Lincoln county. ----- Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
