Cobirders, Tim Smart and I headed down to the Lamar area this weekend. There are some really in depth reports from the area from this weekend already, but we had some different things that might be of interest.
On 4/24/15, we made a late night stop at the marsh east of Fort Lyon (Bent) at CR-16 and CR-HH to listen for rails. We had calling Soras, Virginia Rails, and a Great Horned Owl, but no Black Rails. Two other visits to the location also failed to produce any of the later. We did have a single White-faced Ibis and four Northern Pintail there on 4/26/15. 4/25/15 Began with my lifer Lesser Prairie-Chickens when we flared up five while driving south of Holly in southern Prowers County. We also had singing Grasshopper Sparrows and silent Vesper and White-Crowned Sparrows where we pulled over. In Baca County between Two Buttes and Turks Pond Swa we had a single Mountain Plover and the first of many Burrowing Owls seen. A stop for urban birds in Sprinfield also produced a Broad-winged Hawk soaring overhead. Cottonwood Canyon had some great contributions to the trip including Ash-throated Flycatcher, a pair of Greater Roadrunners, Canyon Towhees, a male Western Bluebird, and a Swift Fox. On the way back out, we had a Cassin's Kingbird to the east. Back in Bent County, we had two pairs of Piping Plovers, Baird's Sandpipers, Marbled Godwits and Scaled Quail at John Martin Res. Cheraw res in Otero County offered at least twelve Snowy Plovers in addition to Pectoral, Least, semipalmated, and Baird's Sandpipers, Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, and a Northern Pintail. A return visit on 4/26/15 added Greater Yellowlegs, seven White-faced Ibis, Clark's Grebes, and a Common Merganser. Also on 4/26/15, we had a pair of Cattle Egrets at Lake Meredith (Crowley), a Horned Grebe and Snowy Plovers at Holbrook Lake (Otero). Full list: Ruddy Duck Gadwal Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Green-winged Teal Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Lesser Scaup Redhead Bufflehead American Wigeon Mallard Canada Goose Common Merganser Lesser Prairie-Chicken Scaled Quail Wild Turkey Ring-necked Pheasant Eared Grebe Horned Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Double-crested Cormorant White-faced Ibis American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Cattle Egret Swainson's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Cooper's Hawk Norther Harrier Turkey Vulture American Kestrel Sora Virginia Rail American Coot Killdeer Mountain Plover Piping Plover Snowy Plover Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Marbled Godwit Baird's Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Mourning Dove Forster's Tern Ring-billed Gull Eurasian Collared-Dove Feral Pigeon Greater Roadrunner Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Western Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Say's Phoebe Eastern Pheobe Loggerhead Shrike Chihuahuan Raven Common Raven American Crow Black-billed Magpie Blue Jay Western Scrub-Jay Horned Lark Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Bank Swallow Rock Wren Canyon Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Mountain Bluebird Western Bluebird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler (myrtle's) Northern Cardinal Canyon Towhee Lark Bunting Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Chipping Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Western Meadowlark Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Red-winged Blackbird Yellow-headed Blackbird House Finch House Sparrow Let me know if you want any specific locations for anything listed above Bill Blackburn Broomfield, 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/01830ca8-be4a-499c-953d-70747abaa8d4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.