Visited Stove Prairie-area (Rist Canyon Road) in Larimer and Sheep Draw Trail in Greeley as well as Weld CR 124 and 122 ponds; Latham-area and Crom Lake.
*Larimer County:* Rist Canyon Road and Stove Prairie Road: Pygmy Nuthatch - 9+ Mountain Bluebird - 16+ Cassin's Finch - 7+ Red Crossbill - 2 Golden Eagle *Weld County:* Weld CR 124 and 122 (Walk-in) Ponds: Least Sandpiper - few Western Sandpiper - few Baird's Sandpiper - few Greater Yellowlegs - 8 Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 Stilt Sandpiper - 3 Long-billed Dowitcher - 2 Wilson's Snipe - 4 Bald Eagle - 2 Northern Harrier - 1 (harassing the perched Bald Eagle got pic and video of display) Northern Shoveler - lots Green-winged Teal - lots Mallard - lots American White Pelican - 67+ American Coot I also thought I heard two Lapland Longspurs flying around me at Weld CR 124 pond. Weld CR 37, 122, 55, 124 Roads (birdy): Sage Thrasher - 6 (Weld CR 37) Brewer's Sparrow - 3 Lark Bunting Horned Lark Vesper Sparrow - lots Willet - 2 (Weld CR 37 wet area just north of Weld CR 108 on west) Weld CR 102 (birdy) Abandoned Property (just west of Weld CR 37)--I have a Barn Owl box there; has a dead American Kestrel in it: House Wren - 3 Wilson's Warbler - 5 MacGillivray's Warbler Gray Catbird - 2 Loggerhead Shrike Townsend's Solitaire Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 USDA/ARS Facility (Weld CR 37)-birdy Gray Catbird - 3 Brown Thrasher Wilson's Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Lark Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Sheep Draw Trail (71st Ave and 10 St Trailhead): Empid Western Wood-Pewee Sharp-shinned Hawk House Finch American Goldfinch Wilson's Warbler European Starling Canada Goose Yellow-rumped Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Song Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Black-billed Magpie American Crow Ring-billed Gull Northern Flicker Eastern Bluejay American Kestrel Rock Pigeon Eurasian-collared Dove Mourning Dove Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Western Kingbird Red-breasted Nuthatch Weld CR 48 Marsh: Stilt Sandpiper - 32 Long-billed Dowitcher - 4 Forster's Tern - 2 Greater Yellowlegs - 18 Lesser Yellowlegs - 2 Sora Weld CR 43 oil field pond--no birds Crom Lake: Stilt Sandpiper - 45 Least Sandpiper - 4 American Avocet - 3 Nunn/Yard: Burrowing Owl - 3 (Weld CR 33) Ruby-crowned Kinglet Sage Thrasher - 3 Loggerhead Shrike Wilson's Warbler - 4 White-crowned Sparrow - 3 Say's Phoebe Rock Wren Dark-eyed Junco Other reports: Arapahoe Pass Trail/Boulder County (Mary Lou Van Laanen reports) White-tailed Ptarmigan (http://coloradobirder.ning.com/photo/2014-9-13-white-tailed-ptarmigan-arapahoe-pass-trail) East Portal-Moffet Tunnel Red-naped Sapsucker (http://coloradobirder.ning.com/photo/9-14-14-red-naped-sapsucker-east-portal) Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m -- 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/b2cf0a7a-06a2-4f5b-b6fb-550b6ed19a79%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
