Went up yesterday to see the beautiful Prothonotary. Thanks to the one who found it and for the continued reports! Beautiful life bird #530.
I then headed ENE and as I drove by Black Hollow saw a lovely Bald Eagle nest with eaglets. Norma’s Grove on CR100/57 had Starlings, Mourning Doves, Western Meadowlarks and one Robin. (By the way - didn’t there used to be a cool old rock building up at the end of that road? With diamond shaped windows? It’s gone.) Pawnee Bird Tour starting at 104/57, had one Swainson’s Hawk, 1 Prairie Falcon, 1 American Kestrel, a dozen or so Mccown’s Longspurs, plenty of Western Meadowlarks and Horned Lark and maybe one Chestnut-Collared Longspur. I did a slow loop d loop drive through Crow Valley - no small passerines noted. Robins, Eurasian Collared Doves and two vans of traveling birders. Heading South on CR 79 I saw two Great Horned Owls on nests, turning left on CR 74 because of the ROAD CLOSED signs when I tried to turn right yielded a very nice surprise about a half mile down on the north side - FIVE Long-Billed Curlews in a farm field. I stopped at the South Platte River - finding 1 Downy Woodpecker and five Wild Turkeys. Lower Lathum and BB Draw wasn’t hopping but birds were hanging out. Cinnamon, Blue-winged and Green-winged Teals, Gadwalls, Mallards, a Canada Goose. Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, a bunch of Wilson’s Snipe, Yellow-headed and Red-winged Blackbirds. White Pelicans, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk. All in all a most enjoyable day! Connie Kogler AslansOwn.com -- 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/57FD82D3-CE75-470D-AB2E-3A43823963D3%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
