Hi all We birded from 0630 to 1530, and in general, constrained by Nunn, Keota, north Greeley and Hwy 85 boundaries on Saturday. As I mentioned earlier we finished with 103 species on Saturday. The running joke on Saturday was finding the "elusive" ;-) American Wigeon ... we eventually got the bird as our last bird of the day at F Street pond in Greeley. Got fantastic views of all grassland specialties.
Sunday morning I went out and visited spots NOT visited by us on Saturday: Latham Reservoir, Stewart's Ponds, Beebe Draw, 35th Ave, Glenmere Park, Windsor and Wood Lakes. Picked up 14 more species: Black-capped Chickadee, Chimney Swift, Downy Woodpecker, Turkey Vulture, Black-crowned Night Heron, American Crow, Wilson's Snipe, Virginia's Warbler, Great Egret, White-faced Ibis, Marsh Wren, Belted Kingfisher, Violet-green Swallow and Vesper Sparrow. All told we wound up with 117 species for the Weld County 100, missing areas of Loloff Reservoir, Weld CR 59 marsh Pawnee NG locales east of Keota and all points in Weld south of Lasalle; and relatively "easy" birds of Canvasback, Ring-necked Duck, White-crowned Sparrow, Common Merganser, Eared Grebe, Common Goldeneye, Least Sandpiper, both yellowlegs, and Snowy Egret. "Easy" in that I saw last weekend. Full list below. Photos here: http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/99/annual-weld-county-100 Probably do second week in May next year. Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/ Canada Goose Mute Swan Empid Flycatcher "Peep" Sandpiper Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Sora American Coot Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Killdeer Mountain Plover 1 Marbled Godwit 1 Stilt Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Spotted Sandpiper Willet 1 Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope 2 Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern 6 Forster's Tern Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron White-faced Ibis Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Prairie Falcon Western Wood-Pewee Say's Phoebe Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Warbling Vireo Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Horned Lark Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee House Wren Marsh Wren Swainson's Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow House Finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Chestnut-collared Longspur many McCown's Longspur 1+ Orange-crowned Warbler Virginia's Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Blue Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock's Oriole -- 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/34a8e027-6ba6-4e40-b5e3-8dc7ebdb933a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
