Over the long weekend, we logged nearly a thousand miles in pursuit of various reported birds at Chico Basin, Last Chance, Bonny "reservoir", Wray, Stalker Lake, Holyoke, Julesburg, Ovid, Sedgwick, Jumbo, Little Jumbo, Red Lion, Sterling, and Pawnee Natl. Grassland.
With few exceptions, we were a day late and appeared to have missed migration. The exceptions follow:
Washington County (May 26)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher west of Last Chance which, judging from Joey's post, is ranging over a considerable area north of Milepost 131 on Route 36 (about 3 miles west of Last Chance)
Yuma County (May 26)
Eastern Phoebe under the Rt. 385 bridge west of Bonny Res.
Yellow- billed Cuckoo west of the campground on the south side of Bonny Res.
Probably 40 to 50 Red-headed Woodpeckers between Bonny and Hale Ponds SWAs (nearly every telephone pole had one!)
4 Bells Vireos in the current patches around Hale Ponds
A pair of Great Crested Flycatchers on the state line just east of Hale Ponds
Phillips County (May 27)
A Diskcissel on CR 29 southwest of Fiddler Peak
A Forster's Tern and then a Common Tern appeared briefly at the Lion's fishing pond in Holyoke
Sedgwick County (May 27)
A Red-eyed Vireo at the corner of Maple and 3rd street in Julesburg (no dogs seen)
Two Bell's Vireos in wildlife shelterbelt NW of the intersection of Rt 138 and CR 3
Logan County (May 27)
A 1st yr male American Redstart at Little Jumbo (CR 95)
A single White-rumped Sandpiper at Red Lion SWA (along with a Red-necked Phalarope and Upland Sandpiper)
On the North side of Route 138 between CR 40 and CR 34.5 a flooded field held 102 White-faced Ibis, 6 Upland Sandpipers, and an adult Little Blue Heron.
Doug Kibbe
Mackenzie Goldthwait
Jeff Dawson
Litteton, Colorado
With few exceptions, we were a day late and appeared to have missed migration. The exceptions follow:
Washington County (May 26)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher west of Last Chance which, judging from Joey's post, is ranging over a considerable area north of Milepost 131 on Route 36 (about 3 miles west of Last Chance)
Yuma County (May 26)
Eastern Phoebe under the Rt. 385 bridge west of Bonny Res.
Yellow- billed Cuckoo west of the campground on the south side of Bonny Res.
Probably 40 to 50 Red-headed Woodpeckers between Bonny and Hale Ponds SWAs (nearly every telephone pole had one!)
4 Bells Vireos in the current patches around Hale Ponds
A pair of Great Crested Flycatchers on the state line just east of Hale Ponds
Phillips County (May 27)
A Diskcissel on CR 29 southwest of Fiddler Peak
A Forster's Tern and then a Common Tern appeared briefly at the Lion's fishing pond in Holyoke
Sedgwick County (May 27)
A Red-eyed Vireo at the corner of Maple and 3rd street in Julesburg (no dogs seen)
Two Bell's Vireos in wildlife shelterbelt NW of the intersection of Rt 138 and CR 3
Logan County (May 27)
A 1st yr male American Redstart at Little Jumbo (CR 95)
A single White-rumped Sandpiper at Red Lion SWA (along with a Red-necked Phalarope and Upland Sandpiper)
On the North side of Route 138 between CR 40 and CR 34.5 a flooded field held 102 White-faced Ibis, 6 Upland Sandpipers, and an adult Little Blue Heron.
Doug Kibbe
Mackenzie Goldthwait
Jeff Dawson
Litteton, Colorado
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