The neotropical migrant/rare bird dam appears to have finally broken, at least
somewhat, in Lamar (Prowers).
David Chartier (Hudsonian Godwit) and Dan Maynard/Mark Peterson (Blue-winged
Warbler) kicked things off over the recent weekend.
Today, the highlights were:
Lamar Community College:
Northern Parula (silent adult female or young male) working the flowering
cottonwoods
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (young male) working the flowering cottonwoods
Warbling Vireo
Chimney Swift
Carolina Wren (apparently there is one male who sings his brains out at various
places, trying for a mate)
Northern Cardinal (one pair)
Indigo Bunting (molting male) working the flowering cottonwoods just e of the
Wellness Center at the s end
Broad-winged Hawk (1 ad. light)
lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers (dozens)
several Orange-crowned Warblers
few Wilson's Warblers
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-throated Sparrow (1 as Tony would say "spanky")
Western Kingbirds everywhere
Fairmount Cemetery:
Townsend's Warbler (1 male)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (female, found by Janeal Thompson and Dotti Russell)
Clay-colored Sparrow
Barn Owl
Lincoln's Sparrow
Great Horned Owl family
Riverside Cemetery:
Townsend's Warbler (1 male)
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Empid (on the move, unidentified, suspect Least, if only because of the date)
Ditch on the south side of US50 e of town between the Truck Bypass and Higbee
SWA:
Black-necked Stilt
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
all three teal
Good luck to the mob this weekend. I would recommend the following trees to
concentrate on: (1)flowering Plains Cottonwoods (several species of birds are
picking thru the catkins for the larvae of Dorytomus weevils (see "The Hungry
Bird" article in Colorado Birds a couple years back)); (2) hackberries (both
Northern (both Lamar cemeteries) and Netleaf (little trees along the road below
the dam at Two Buttes) -the adult psyllids have emerged from overwintering and
are ripe for the picking by insectivores); (3) flowering Canada Red Cherry (the
tree to the north of Jane Stulp's front door and there are several along the
middle e-w road in Fairmount Cemetery (look like a white-flowered crabapple,
little lollypop trees); and lastly (4) yellow-flowered Golden Currant shrubs
(understory of LCC).
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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