Great Brandon. Excellent finds by the group!
On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 8:07:30 PM UTC-7 Brandon wrote: > Hi all, > > We were able to conduct the Pueblo Christmas Bird Count today, with 18 > observers. I'm not sure of the species total, though I believe it is at > least 96 species. One of the bodies of water was dry, one we didn't get > into, three others had quite a bit of ice, though we still did well with > waterfowl. Mountain birds were wandering out to the eastern part of > Pueblo, and we found them on this year's Pueblo CBC. Good numbers of > Mountain Chickadees and a few Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays were seen by several > groups. We had a few new birds for this long running Christmas Bird Count, > a staked out *Juniper Titmouse *(present for a while) and a stakeout > female *Williamson's Sapsucker *(first found last week). Two other new > birds for the count, one *Bonaparte's Gull* was overdo probably, the > other new bird for the count, is a 2nd Colorado CBC record (well > photographed, at private property), a *WOOD THRUSH*. This is the 1st > winter sighting for the Pueblo Area as well. The Denver CBC had one many > years ago. As soon as I can get all the results, they will be on the CBC > Website. A few other birds I heard about of note: Snow and Ross's Geese, > Barrow's Goldeneye, Greater Scaup, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hermit Thrush, > Swamp and Lincoln's Sparrows, Lesser Goldfinch, 3 Say's Phoebes at least, > also a count week Lesser Black-backed Gull (I don't think one was found > today). A big thanks to the people who were able to come and help > today, some from far away (El Paso/Teller Counties). I didn't see any > other birders today, except for uncle Van, who I birded with some. We > normally meet mid-day at Subway, though not this year. > > Brandon Percival > Pueblo West, CO > -- 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/fce2d1c2-d3dc-47b5-80f8-425b9051112an%40googlegroups.com.
