Went out this morning to see what the little bit of fresh snow might have brought our way.
We searched for the better part of an hour for Dusky Grouse at Cuchara Mountain Resort...with no luck. We did have a flock of around 15 Evening Grosbeak, 7 Wild Turkey, Several Northern Flicker, Numerous American Robin, Numerous Steller's Jay At Lathrop State Park we found: 30+ Great Blue Heron Over 50 Green-winged Teal 20 or so Blue-winged teal 2 Cinnamon Teal 15 or so Ruddy Ducks Gadwall Pied-bill Grebe Am. Coot Lots of Canada Geese 1 pair Hooded Merganser (the male of this pair is either very young or a hybrid...very strange looking...have not bee able to get close enough for photo) Killdeer Osprey Say's Phoebe 27 American Kestral between our home, Cuchara and Lathrop State Park 2 Red-tailed Hawk Mountain Bluebird The best sighting of the day had to be a Snowy Egret that lit ever so briefly on the shore at West Martin Inlet, seemed a little on the early side for this bird...but perhaps not? Back at the house our feeders are being visited by most of the "usual" suspects including: Hairy and Downy Woodpecker White-breasted Nuthatch 25 or so Evening Grosbeak Northern Flicker House Finch around 4 and 50 Red-winged Blackbirds 30+ American Goldfinch a few Pine Siskin 1 Blue Jay Mountain Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee far too many House Sparrow and Eurasian Collared Doves 20 or so Pinyon Jay Polly Wren and Paul Neldner La Veta, CO -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CA%2BFr6DLN_NbMog_CN3Xmfe3_6A3keWDus8%2Bnc2itpq3qULaBtQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
