Saturday, 15 December 2012

[cobirds] Pueblo Reservoir CBC Results -- 12/15 -- 123 species

Since I need to get to sleep, for tomorrow's Penrose CBC, this will be short.

123 Species of birds were found on today's Pueblo Reservoir CBC, compiled by Mark Yaeger.  Thanks to everyone for coming and helping out!  We can't do it without everyone's help!

Two new species were added to the count list:  a stakeout female Williamson's Sapsucker inside the Pueblo Zoo and a Snow Bunting!  Another highlight were four Common Redpolls, the first on the count since the first year of the count, back in the 1970s and an immature male Pine Warbler inside the Pueblo Zoo (only second time on count day for the count).

Other things found on the count:
Greater Scaup -1 female
Long-tailed Duck - 2 females
Barrow's Goldeneye - 1 male
Pacific Loon - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
9 species of gulls: 
Bonaparte's Gulls
Mew Gull - 1 adult
Thayer's Gull - 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4
Glaucous Gull - 1
Great Black-backed Gull - 1 adult
White-winged Dove - 59
no Mourning Dove!
Greater Roadrunner - 1
Western Screcch-Owl - 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (1 adult male, 1 juvenile)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker - 2
Say's Phoebes
Pygmy Nuthatch - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 17
Western Bluebird - 3
Hermit Thrush - 2
Swamp Sparrows
Harris's Sparrow - 1
Western Meadowlark - only 2
Brewer's Blackbird - only 1
Great-tailed Grackle - 38
Cassin's Finch - 1
Red Crossbill - Count Week
Evening Grosbeak - 4

Good birding,

Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO

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