Hi all! Decided to brave the wind today and put in some miles in hopes of eyeing some early arrivals. The day started and ended in my backyard in Fort Collins. In between I hit up the pond at the Wal-mart followed by Timnath Reservoir. From there drove to Lower Latham and Beebe Draw then to Glenmere Park in Greeley which I had never stopped at before. I then headed to Crow Valley and the Pawnee and then west to Crom Lake, Wellington State Wildlife Area, Poudre #3, Douglas Reservoir and finally Grandview Cemetery. Despite it being difficult to hear anything today I had some good birds and some notable misses. Was hoping for 100 species for the day. Didn't quite make it. I did see many of these birds in several places but I was strictly keeping a running tally today rather than a complete list of everywhere I visited. This list will only show where they showed up on my day list. So in loose order of appearance, here they are.
My backyard Red-breasted Nuthatch Black-capped Chickadee House Finch American Crow Common Grackle Downy Woodpecker Mountain Chickadee (has been around since the cold snap) Northern Flicker Wal-mart pond-nothing... Timnath Res Canada Goose Rock Pigeon Red-winged Blackbird European Starling Blue Jay Western Meadowlark Mourning Dove Horned Lark American Robin Horned Grebe Ring-billed Gull Northern Pintail Eared Grebe-1 (east side) Clark's Grebe-1 (east side) Pied-billed Grebe California Gull Red-breasted Merganser-There has been up to a dozen or more here for at least a week. I only saw 2 today Common Merganser Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron-There were at least 7 on the east side acting really frisky. Fun to watch. Killdeer Great-tailed Grackle Gadwall Yellow-headed Blackbird House Sparrow American Coot Lesser Scaup Western Grebe Greater Scaup-1 male east side. Mingling with Lessers Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Common Goldeneye-way late. Surprised to see this bird. *Long-tailed Duck*-2 east side. I have seen these two here for a week but have not been able to determine if these are the same birds from the Wal-mart pond as they are only maybe 2 miles apart. Green-winged Teal Swainson's Hawk American Kestrel Say's Phoebe-the only one of the day. Eurasian Collared Dove Greeley/Latham/Beebe/Glenmere Black-billed Magpie Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler White-faced Ibis American Avocet Wilson's Snipe Peregrine Falcon-2 on 48 Marsh Wren Northern Harrier Sandhill Crane-2 of the Russet variety. Gorgeous! Also very frisky. Bald Eagle American White Pelican Black-necked Stilt American Wigeon Bonaparte's Gull Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs-1 in with the Greaters at Beebe Franklin's Gull Rough-legged Hawk-2 today. Getting late. One at Beebe and one at Crow Valley Virginia's Rail Blue-winged Teal Black-crowned Night Heron-Glenmere Rookery Crow Valley-virtually birdless...and the Pawnee American Goldfinch Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Vesper Sparrow Ring-necked Duck McCown's Longspur Loggerhead Shrike Common Raven Burrowing Owl Mountain Plover-2 in a field at the southwest corner of Weld County roads 41&100 Long-billed Curlew-1 all by his lonesome on 102 between 37&41 Merlin Ferruginous Hawk Wellington SWA/Poudre #3/Douglas Golden Eagle- on nest Northern Rough-winged Swallow-1 the only swallow I saw all day. Redhead *Common Loon*-2 I think the one initially reported by Lefko found a friend David Wade Turkey Vulture Osprey 87 species. Notable misses -Song, White-crowned Sparrow -3rd time striking out on Chestnut-collared Longspur so far this year -no peeps anywhere -Townsend's Solitaire -Bluebirds of any kind -Spotted Towhee -Prairie Falcon -Great Horned Owl-I even tried Grandview thinking it would be an easy add on. Low-hanging Hoot if you will... -White-breasted Nuthatch many others... Beautiful day despite the wind. Saw many deer and antelope and a really cold and ticked off Bull Snake. Guess us Northerners have to be patient a while longer. Good Birding all! Josh Bruening 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/9fa89b22-935d-4059-8934-5658aa19e889%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
