A big thank you to the Karval Community Alliance and the private landowners who continue to feed and open their land and their homes to birders from all over North America for the weekend! The 7th Annual festival had 26 birders registered from points afar such as Baltimore, MD, Harlingen, TX and Port Stanley,Ontario, Canada!!! Repeat customers include Coloradoan's Kevin Corwin, Don and BJ Stone, Will Gallagher, Bob and Nancy Stocker, John and Jane Koshak and Karen von Saltza. Despite severe drought conditions we had a record 87 species for the weekend, these were birds seen from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28th by festival goers in Lincoln County, mostly on private land. Please keep the families of southeastern Colorado in you thoughts as this drought persists, these are very tough times for folks out there. Species List Includes: (* indicates species not currently in the Lincoln County CFO checklist) Canada Goose Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe American White Pelican Snowy Egret (5/26 Karval SWA)* Great Blue Heron White-faced Ibis* Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Prairie Falcon American Coot Killdeer Mountain Plover American Avocet Black-necked Stilt* Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Eastern Screech Owl (a festival 1st!) * Northern Flicker Empid Sp. (I am very much leaning Hammond's, but just can't pull the trigger) Say's Phoebe Western Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Black-billed Magpie Common Raven Horned Lark Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Rock Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling American Pipit Yellow-rumped Warbler (both) Spotted Towhee Green-tailed Towhee* Chipping Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark eyed-Junco Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch House Sparrow
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