Based on Bill Kaempfer's recommendation, on the drive home from Texas I
decided to bird Colorado 12 (the Highway of Legends) from Trinidad to La
Veta yesterday morning. The scenery was breath taking, though the birding
was rather slow. I did find an adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker feeding
in
This morning I saw a juv. Red-headed Woodpecker in Wetmore, Custer Co. It
was in the cottonwoods along Hardscrabble Creek across from the Wetmore
Community Center. No doubt it was the same one I saw at this location one
month ago. In addition to being out of range and out of season, it
The tan-striped white-throated sparrow that has been at the feeder at the
Forest Service office in Paonia (403 N Rio Grande) for the last couple of weeks
put in two appearances today, both times when I did not have the camera on the
tripod and pointed out the window. It remains very furtive,
Denver Field Ornithologists
January 2011 Field Trips
Saturday, January 29South Platte Park – Carson Nature Center
Leader: Ed Holub 303-979-2194. Meet at 0800 at Nature Center parking lot,
(north of Mineral Avenue, 1 block west of Santa Fe Drive, behind Aspen
Grove shopping center.)
