Hi Everyone-- I did some birding around Las Animas and Lamar this morning 3/8. A Barn Owl heard at the Best Western hotel at the east end of Las Animas late 3/7 was heading west. The previously-reported Eastern Towhee female at the corner of Roads JJ and 16 showed well at dawn in the woods on the south side of the road. A Northern Shrike was along JJ around Road 17. I attempted to follow recent directions to the LeConte's Sparrow, but I didn't see it (White-crowned, Song, Lincoln's, and Tree were around, and one unknown sparrow crash-landed in the grass and disappeared). On my way east to Lamar, a raven landed on US 50 near Road 34 (still Bent County, about a mile west of the Prowers county line) that had the jizz of a Chihuahuan: tail a little shorter and less obviously wedge-shaped than I would expect on a Common. It didn't stay for closer examination. No other black corvids were anywhere near here. At Lamar Community College, a Brown Thrasher was thrashing in the leaves about 100 yards north of the bird log, and a Virginia Rail was calling from the cattails. Neenache Reservoir had a large flock of geese smack in the middle of it, a good mile from the end of the access road. They did fly around some, however, so I was able to make out a few Ross's and White-fronts among the Snows.
Mark Miller Longmont, CO --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
