Hi all I did our "4th Annual Weld County 100" (solo COVID-19 birding) this year and tallied 109 birds! Highlights and newcomers below.
"Mr. Irrelevant" (#100) this year was Great-tailed Grackle. - Chimney Swift (Greeley 8th Avenue-area) - Red-necked Phalarope (Weld CR 59, Cozzens Lake and Crom Lake) - Franklin's Gull (Weld County Landfill. Of note the "landfill work activity" nearest Hwy 14 attracting lots of gulls easily viewed) - Forster's Tern (Windsor Lake, Cozzens Lake and Woods Lake) - Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Weld CR 102) - Green-tailed Towhee and Northern Mockingbird (Weld CR 110 Lone Tree Creek crossing) - Both longspurs (Weld CR 45/114) - Spotted Towhee (Weld CR 94/37 Gravel Pit) - Cassin's Sparrow (Weld CR 41 btw 102/100) - Black-headed Grosbeak and Gray Catbird (Nunn yard) Photos: http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/165/4th-annual-weld-county-100 Full list: Snow Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Chimney Swift American Coot Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Killdeer Marbled Godwit Baird's Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Forster's Tern Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron 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 Say's Phoebe Western Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Horned Lark Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee House Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Swainson's Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chestnut-collared Longspur McCown's Longspur Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Cassin's Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock's Oriole Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org -- 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/55ed6aa1-6b66-4dbf-875c-2e7137fa2469%40googlegroups.com.
