[cobirds] Lamar area (all Prowers) on 5November

Highlights from the Lamar area (Prowers County) today, Monday 5November2012:

Willow Valley Subdivision e of Willow Creek Park
Yellow-rumped Warbler (4)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1m)
Common Grackle (5)
Townsend's Solitaire

Fairmount Cemetery on Memorial Drive se of downtown
Red Crossbill (1 male, sounded like a Type 5)
Evening Grosbeak (1 flyover)
Townsend's Solitaire (2)
White-breasted Nuthatch (1 or 2 eastern)
Sandhill Crane (flyover flock of about 30)
Snow Goose (2 flyovers)
Pine Siskins (few flyovers)
Eastern Bluebird (about 10 flyovers)
Harlan's Hawk (1 dark a)

Riverside Cemetery on Maple Street about 1 mile e of Main
Wilson's Snipe (in ditch across the alfalfa field n of the cemetery)
Townsend's Solitaire (1)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (1 in juniper next to hackberry getting overwintering psyllids)
White-breasted Nuthatch (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1 or 2)
Harris's Sparrow (1a)

Lamar Community College Woods
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Carolina Wren (1, in the woods near the woods/cattail interface approximately ese of the tennis courts, very wary)
Red Crossbill (flyover, probably the same bird seen at nearby Fairmount this morning)
Northern Cardinal (1m)
Brown Creeper (heard)

Thurston Res (about 5 miles north of town)
Sandhill Crane (about 20)
Killdeer (24)
American Pipit (10, getting flies while walking on top of row upon row of dead carp and channel catfish)
Baird's Sandpiper (1)
DUNLIN (1)
Ducks (grand total of 2!!!!!!, a Mallard pair, just in time for duck season, reservoir very shallow, literally tons of dead fish around the shore, terrific stench)

The weather is supposed to be balmy (too balmy) for the entire week, with predicted highs near 80 at mid-week.  The area is very dry. 

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins