I had the privilege of spending the day out getting an education on atlassing by doing several blocks with Paul Opler. The sand sage prairie was flooded with migrants and we had a great time! It was fascinating to explore a different type of habitat and be delighted by great flowers as well.
Highlight of the day for me, well there were many.. was the Swainson's Hawk footing a Great Horned Owl right above my head! I heard the sound of the hawks wings as it pulled up and stalled before attacking the owl. Wow! There were waves of Lark Buntings, Vesper and Lark Sparrows, along with Clay-colored, White-crowned, and Chipping. Lincoln's Sparrows here and there, Spotted and Green-tailed Towhee's on the same branch, loads of Mourning Doves everywhere. The migrant trap type areas were popping with Orange-crowned Warblers, a few Audubon's, Bullock's Orioles, Western Kingbirds, Mockingbirds, a taste of Brown Thrashers with a salting of a Swainson's Thrush and two Cassin's Kingbirds. Rock Wren's flitted about wondering where all the rocks were, and stopping at Riverside Res. produced a nice variety of ducks, pelicans, grebes, gulls and several Forster's Terns. Quite a productive, educational, all around great day of birding with a purpose. Connie Kogler BirdsOTheMorning.com AslansOwn.com Loveland, Colorado. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
