Are you wondering where your next birding adventures will be? How about Jackson County? It is one the few counties in Colorado where Covid19 has not paid a visit.The county has an assortment of critters, 1400 folks, 600 moose, pronghorns, 2500 cattle and over the years 272 bird species have been tallied (CFO). The county is bounded to the west by the specular Park Range and to the east by the Medicine Bow mountains. Sage is the dominate vegetation within the county. Arapaho NWR maintains jurisdiction over a good portion of the wetlands in the central valley and provides an impressive auto tour that snakes its way through lakes and ponds. This is where Sandy and I discovered sixteen species of ducks as well as many other water oriented birds. We spent several days in the preserve and never saw another car except for one distant NWR truck. Driving the unpopulated county roads, all one sees are these gentle rolling sage brush covered hills for miles. The county has impressive State Wildlife Areas and Walden Reservoir SWA has several hundred nesting White Pelicans, California Gulls, and Eared Grebes in flashy breeding plumage. There is lots to look at in Jackson County.
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