Arriving here a week ago evening (4/9), I have been birding mostly the mythical
Lamar "CBC" circle and chasing a few rarities. The Lake Holbrook Little Blue
Heron and Lake Hasty Brown Pelican found by Stan Oswald and Jill White-Smith,
respectively, were special. When we were at Lake Hasty the John Martin Dam was
already closed for the nightly terrorist alert so did not go look for the
Iceland Gull reported by Tony Leukering. Yet another great bird. Duane Nelson
arranged for the on-going Canyon Towhee and two Curve-billed Thrashers to
appear in his Las Animas yard. Thanks, Duane.
In Lamar I have seen 92 species, 36 of them new Colorado Year List birds but
only the Northern Parula female today at Lamar Community College (LCC) Woods
near the Library in flowering cottonwoods and the female Golden-crowned Kinglet
at Lamar's Fairmount Cemetery in pines on 4/14 could be called special or
somewhat unexpected. Four Barn Owls seems a bit high but this is the time of
year non-wintering Barn Owls return to the southern plains. Today was my first
Orange-crowned Warbler (at LCC). There has been one Hermit Thrush (at
Fairmount), a few Northern Mockingbirds, one Brown Thrasher, two Blue-gray
Gnatcatchers, a few Chipping Sparrows, one Lincoln's Sparrow, a few Barn
Swallows (no other swallows), a few Say's Phoebes, no empids, no buntings, no
Summer Tanagers, no kingbirds, no House Wren, several Franklin's Gulls, a few
Bonaparte's Gulls (Thurston Res), you get the picture.
Will be interesting to see if the migrant dam breaks a bit when this cold, wet
system moves on. The moisture down here has been MOST welcome.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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