In my rush to get the post out before a meeting I missed a couple species. Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Yellow-rumped Warbler (both flavors) Orange-crowned Warbler Sundays front and winds I thought would have produced more excitement RE migrants, but we could only stand (literally) the wind so much.
On Monday, April 28, 2014 11:19:27 AM UTC-6, Seth Gallagher wrote: > I'm happy to report that the Karval Community Alliance hosted a successful > 8th Annual Mountain Plover Festival April 25-27th. Participation was the > highest ever with close to 40 participants many from the Front Range of > Colorado, but also guests from as far away as Minnesota and Florida. Thanks > to the Community Alliance and the for the participants who make this > festival possible. Aside from seeing great birds participants learn about > conservation efforts occurring in this working landscape and get to see > first hand how our neighbors in rural eastern Colorado not only produce > food for the rest of us but provide critical habitat for our grassland > species. > > We had 68 species detected, down from previous years but not bad for some > pretty challenging conditions including a serious drought and high winds > and rain (yay!) on Sunday. All trips occurred on private lands in Lincoln > County with the exception a quick look at Karval State Wildlife Area. > > Highlights: > Canada Goose > Gadwall (a lot) > American Wigeon > Mallard > Blue-winged Teal > Northern Shoveler > Northern Pintail > Green-winged Teal > Redhead > Lesser Scaup > Bufflehead > Ruddy Duck > Scaled Quail > Great Blue Heron > Northern Harrier > Swainson's Hawk > Red-tailed Hawk > Ferruginous Hawk > American Kestral > American Coot > Black-bellied Plover (a festival first!! on a private playa 3/4 full from > the September rain) > Killdeer > Mountain Plover (multiple locations on both native shortgrass and > agricultural fields) > American Avocet > Spotted Sandpiper > Greater Yellowlegs > Willett > Marbled Godwit (2, same scope as the Black bellied Plover) > Wilson's Phalarope (one lone female at Karval SWA) > Great Horned Owl (nesting with young) > Burrowing Owl > Chimney Swift > Northern Flicker (our only woodpecker ;( ) > Eastern Phoebe > Say's Phoebe > Western Kingbird > Northern Rough-winged Swallow > Bank Swallow > Barn Swallow > House Wren > Ruby-crowned Kinglet > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher > Hermit Thrush > American Robin > Green-tailed Towhee > Chipping Sparrow > Brewer's Sparrow > Vesper Sparrow > Lark Sparrow > Lark Bunting (mostly males) > White-crowned Sparrow > Red-winged Blackbird > Yellow-headed Blackbird > Western Meadowlark > Brewer's Blackbird > Common Grackle > Brown-headed Cowbird > > Seth Gallagher > Fort Collins > > > > -- 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/ac33eaff-b26e-4fe2-b95a-515a364b8be8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
