A few birds to add to David's excellent report: early in the morning West of the Pueblo Nature Center, Kara and I saw a Harris's Sparrow, Gray Catbird, and the Eastern Bluebird flock. A very birdy day around Pueblo, several different groups of birders roaming around seeing things.
Brandon K Percival Pueblo West, CO On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:49 PM David Tønnessen <[email protected]> wrote: > CO birders, > 5 of us from the CU birding club made the 2.5 hour trek to the Pueblo > Reservoir area from Boulder today. We started at the original Valco Ponds > parking lot and found the wintering Black Phoebe just west of the lot, and > two Marsh Wrens east of the lot. After hiking east, we found all three > merganser species on several of the Valco Ponds, as well as 5 Greater Scaup > on the third pond. Later that day at the gravel pit pond we had a > Long-tailed Duck, the two Dunlin, Ring-billed, California, Herring, Lesser > Black-backed, Mew (evening only) and Thayer's (evening only) gulls, as well > as all 3 merganser species, Ruddy Ducks, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneyes, > Redhead and other common waterfowl. Along the river nearby we located at > least 4 White-throated Sparrows in their usual wintering spot, the hybrid > Black-capped x Mountain Chickadee, 30+ Yellow-rumped Warblers, and the > wintering female Western Tanager (!!) that Brandon Percival first found in > January (last seen in the middle of that month). > At the South Shore Marina the Red-throated Loon was putting on a good show > close to the tires, although few gulls were present throughout the day with > the only notable one being the resident Great Black-backed. The total > numbers of grebes, particularly Eared and Horned is much lower than it has > been earlier this winter, upon checking a few other spots along the north > side of the reservoir. Other birders today also had the Pacific Loon and 3 > Common Loons on other parts of the reservoir. > > Other special birds seen for Boulder birders included Bewick's Wren, > Canyon Towhee, Curve-billed Thrasher, and Ladder-backed Woodpecker. > > We considered all this to be a success. > > > Good birding, > David Tonnessen & the CU birding club > Boulder > > > -- Brandon K. Percival Pueblo West, CO Sent from my Phone -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CA%2BXeEuUpFHNXQJb2iDaTLvG%2BDpWdUtVJ6HpP3sJ8oDmwWGfE-g%40mail.gmail.com.
