[cobirds] Pueblo Reservoir CBC highlights

Here is the list of the more harder to get bird species, that were found on the Pueblo Reservoir CBC, on 14 December.  I don't have time right now, to give the locations, most of the rare waterbirds were on Pueblo Reservoir.

Greater White-fronted Goose

Snow Goose (white form)

Ross's Goose

Greater Scaup

Long-tailed Duck

Barrow's Goldeneye

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

Clark's Grebe (3 sp. of loons and all 6 sp. of grebes - not sure this has happened before)

Double-crested Cormorant

Northern Goshawk

Bonaparte's Gull (9 sp. of gulls)

Thayer's Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glaucous Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

White-winged Dove

Greater Roadrunner

Williamson's Sapsucker (2nd time for the count, the 1st time was last year)

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Say's Phoebe

Chihuahuan Raven

Pygmy Nuthatch

Winter Wren

Hermit Thrush

Gray Catbird

Common Yellowthroat

Lincoln's Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Great-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Lesser Goldfinch

New birds for the Count:

Trumpeter Swan

Glaucous-winged Gull

Mexican Duck

Dark-eyed (Cassiar) Junco

Glaucous-winged x Herring Gull (hybrid)

Glaucous x Herring Gull (hybrid)

Origin questionable:

Brad Steger from Wisconsin (and sometimes Colorado) found a Grayleg Goose, that flew in with some Canada Geese at Pueblo City Park, the bird wasn't fat like the domestic ones.  Maybe someone can get a photo of it, and check the hind-toes.  I'm not sure a "wild" one of these would show up in Colorado, though birds do have wings and don't read books about their range sometimes, so who knows.

Count Week only birds (unless a feeder watcher or someone who hasn't reported their list yet found any of these):

Northern Parula -- new for the count -- this is 10th warbler species to be found on the count or during count week

Western x Clark's Grebe (hybrid) -- new for the count

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

American Dipper

Harris's Sparrow

Rusty Blackbird

Bird species not found (none are too regular, except for Brewer's Blackbird, which we've missed three of the last four years):

Steller's Jay

Pinyon Jay

Canyon Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Western Bluebird

Sage Thrasher

Lapland Longspur

Brewer's Blackbird

Cassin's Finch

Evening Grosbeak

I don't know yet, if the total made it to 130 species yet.  Besides for possible owls, there could be feeder watchers who could perhaps add something.

Brandon Percival

Pueblo West, CO