COBirders,
If you are attending the Pikes Peak Birding and Nature Festival and are a participant in one of the two field trips to Chico Basin Ranch (El Paso and Pueblo counties) on Saturday, only about 15 miles east and south of Steve’s banding area, yesterday’s big storm did NOT extend east to The Chico but the bird fallout did. The roads were mostly dry today and the grasses too. Just a few of the many species recorded there today by a number of excellent birders include: Red-necked Phalarope - only one, but more on Squirrel Creek Pond American Redstart - 2 locations Blackpoll Warbler – male = fine Magnolia Warbler – male across from the fire station on the drive in Northern Parula – eye arcs unfortunately Mac Warbler – ditto the eye arcs Least Flycatchers Dusky Flycatchers Cordilleran Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo – my FOS – and the two common vireos Bobolinks – 5 singing Orchard Oriole – singing 2nd year yellow male Hermit Thrush – lots Swainson’s Thrush – tons Gray Catbirds - check Brown Thrashers - Murray, Murray, Murray, hey bird, hey bird, I need you, I need you… Peregrine Falcon – perched Wild Turkeys – on the drive to and from Ash-throated Flycatchers – breeders Ladder-backed Woodpeckers – resident Red-headed Woodpecker - yep Northern Mockingbird - breeders Curve-billed Thrasher – resident Ruddy Ducks – knockout males Lesser and American goldfinches – not mellow yellow Great-tailed Grackles – too cool Western Tanager – oh yeah Black-headed Grosbeaks and possibly its closest relative Blue Grosbeaks – un huh Lark, Chipping, White-crowned, Brewer’s, and Cassin’s sparrows Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera Bill Maynard Colorado Springs, CO From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Brown Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 1:52 PM To: COBirds Subject: [cobirds] N Waterthrush, #6,7, CSR, El Paso Co, Fri. Hey COBirders, At clear Spring Ranch this morning it was miserable wet, cold, windy, muddy, corn snow, and threatening, so, naturally, the birds were spectacular. A very good day for me at CSR is 30 banded birds. I had 50 before 8:30. I was still catching a few birds when I finally closed at 12:30. Total 73 birds today. Two Northern Waterthrush were caught early on, and small waves of several other species. The rush was over by 9:00, but small numbers continued to show up continuously. 7 species of warblers banded. Quite a morning! Today: Least Flycatcher (FOS) 3 Dusky Flycatcher 3 Warbling Vireo (FOS) House Wren 10 Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher 2 N Waterthrush Orange-crowned Warbler 8 MacGillivray's Warbler 4 Com Yellowthroat 5 Yellow Warbler Wilson's Warbler 5 Yellow-breasted Chat Clay-colored Sparrow (FOS) Mountain White-crowned Sparrow 8 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Black-headed Grosbeak 7 Lazuli Bunting Lesser Goldfinch (FOS) 4 American Goldfinch and a few others I can't remember at the moment. Whew! Sent from my iPad -- 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/434A9425-E6BC-42EA-90B3-A77EEEB831E7%40gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/434A9425-E6BC-42EA-90B3-A77EEEB831E7%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/002901d2d0f4%24a573c0f0%24f05b42d0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
