After being out of the state for a week, I got back to birding in Colorado
a bit today.
The Pueblo County side of Chico Basin Ranch (Headquarters and Rose Pond),
male Black-throated Blue Warbler, Nashville Warbler, four Northern
Waterthrush, American Redstart, Cassin's Vireo, singing Least
Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: May 14, 2023
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Black Vulture
All:
Another long walk today in rain, mist, and mud, mud, mud.
Route: From 132nd and Zuni into the Anthem Neighborhood to Anthem Park
(Westminster), picked up the Dry Creek Trail going southwest to the
Broomfield Waste Water Treatment Plant; U-Turn back north through
Columbine
Birders,
Excuse the late post as I had to get home and make some mother's day
breakfast, but in the hour I had outside this morning I enjoyed a gorgeous
breeding plumaged adult Sabine's Gull foraging near the parking lots at Big
Johnson Reservoir in El Paso County. There are only a handful (4?)
My neighborhood, Shooks Run in downtown Colorado Springs, is awash in migrants
today. Of note:
Western Tanager - 10 sighted in about 30 minutes
Bullock’s Oriole - 5
Warbling Vireo - 2, and a new yard bird for me.
Swainson’s Thrush (following on a Hermit Thrush that hung around for much of
the
After two days of rain, we anticipated a busy morning yesterday, if not
with migrants passing through then our summer residents out feeding. But
it was pretty quiet, with just 24 new birds caught. There was a nice
variety, so it was a good learning experience for our visitors from Denver
