Monday 19 July 2021

[cobirds] Weld County Birding Weekend


Hi all

My birding travels over the weekend ...

Saturday:
  • Sage Thrasher - 4 (along 41 btw 100/102. good spot to find them during migrations (looked like a family unit, too). Also, loads of Lark Bunting, some Grasshopper, Brewer's and Cassin's Sparrow, Bullock's Oriole, Northern Mockingbird and Great Horned Owl who typically roosts under either bridge)
  • McCown's Longspur - 20+ (about 1-2 miles south of 122/45 (on 45). lots of youngsters on road)
  • CR 124 Pond drawing down. Usual ducks and Greater Yellowlegs. 77/122 playa has water (only geese and mallards) and CR116/77 playa has water (full)-no birds
  • Burrowing Owls persist at CR 33 (E) btw 98/100; CR 59/74 (NW); and new CR 74 about 2 miles past 61 on south (on west side of small dairy operation)
Sunday:
  • Crom Lake starting to draw down (geese, mallards)
  • CR 84/31 marsh had 100s of Cliff Swallow and two Bank Swallow plus 54 Yellow-headed Blackbird group feeding in mowed grass on north
  • CR 59 marsh hosted Baird's, Semipalmated, and Spotted Sandpiper, many Wilson's Phalarope
  • Loloff Reservoir hosted 50-60 avocet, 20-30 phalarope and 250--300+ Franklin's Gull. The former oil and gas pad "trailhead overlook" parking area is now fenced off, too. Along CR 57.
  • Windsor Lake had two+ Forster's Tern
  • Woods Lake had gulls (Franklin's and RIng-billeds), both egrets and a Great Horned Owl sitting out in the open watching the gulls and ducks
  • Two Mute Swan ("wild" ones that can fly :-) )
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Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland

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