Friday 10-16 I visited Chico Basin Ranch (El Paso Co, Pueblo Co), did not see anything resembling reported Spraque's Pipits but had some birds of interest: A single Bufflehead and flocks of McCown's Longspurs at the lake S of headquarters, two Great Horned Owls and a couple of weak-sounding Marsh Wrens at the now dried-up headquarters pond, two Loggerhead Shrikes and two Mountain Bluebirds along the road. Ravens which shall go unidentified. Northern Harriers, Sharp-shinned, Coopers, and Red-tailed Hawks (seems like all the Swainson's suddenly vanished). Hundreds of White-crowned Sparrows, mostly immature.
The banding station was more active that I'd anticipated, a lone Hermit Thrush, Red-naped Sapsucker, a drumming Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, Townsend's Solitaire, lots of Dark-eyed Juncos (Oregon, Pink-sided, Slate-colored), Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Orange-crowned Warbler, and my highlight bird Cassin's Vireo which had eluded me all year despite being seen frequently by others. Wild Turkeys on the road out, fall foliage, a day that started with my car heater and ended with air conditioning. -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/0c8d25a5-7315-4638-bd5a-fc194ef6205f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
