Hi all The Colorado Birding Challenge <https://cobirds.org/CFO/CoBC/> is rapidly approaching. Our team name is "Friends of the Pawnee National Grassland" and we'll be scouring Weld County birds for the event. I went out this weekend to scout birds (and locations) in area. I got 77 species with highlights being:
- Tundra/Trumpeter Swan - 2 (Loloff Reservoir)--loaded more photos to help with ID - Long-billed Curlew - 15 (Antelope Reservoir) present Sat and Sun. As you approach Antelope Reservoir from the south on CR 37, just before CR 92 easterly turn, they are on west side of CR 37 in field - Forster's Tern - 5 (Kyger Open Space) - Mysterious "white or pale-looking, large gull" (*need ID help*,* see photos below*) (Kyger Open Space) - Swainson's Hawk - 3 (Beebe Draw, as usual one atop "Swainson's Hawk telephone pole" at CR 42/47 :-) ) - Sage Thrasher singing up a storm on CR 41 btw 100/102 (video on homepage below) - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1, Black-crowned Night Heron - 3 (Glenmere Park) - Least Sandpiper - 4 (Crom Lake) - Both longspurs (CR 45 btw 112/114) - Sandhill Crane - 23 (Cozzens Lake on shore) - Willet, White-faced Ibis (dozen or so), Long-billed Dowitcher (1-2 dozen), and Baird's Sandpiper (Stewart's Pond) Photos: http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/219/2021-colorado-birding-challenge-weld Along Lower Latham marsh the cattails and taller grasses are all flattened to ground because of weight of snow from blizzard few weeks ago. It is silent and devoid of birds--assume because habitat not showing any signs of resilience yet? Didn't see or hear any expected birds: Red-wingeds, Yellow-heads, Marsh Wren, ducks, gulls Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/ https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland -- -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/4ace2a71-30ec-4e6c-bd06-c2651443d0f7n%40googlegroups.com.
