I headed SE for the start of my Spring break on Friday afternoon. Driving down from the front range to Eads was pretty uneventful other than a couple of prairie Merlins along US 40 between Limon and Kit Carson. Friday evening I discovered a back way into Nee Gronde Reservoir that get you right to the water. I appreciated that as I almost expired trying to get through the weeds and back on the east side in the fall. Not much around, that I could see on Friday afternoon.
Nee Gronde was my first stop this a.m. and to my surprise there was a Swan on the water--probable Trumpeter. I continued to Lamar and found a lingering flock of cranes on the way. Lamar CC Woods had an active pair of Northern Cardinals.
In Eastern Baca County, Two Buttes Reservoir is a vast ocean--more water than I have ever seen there, It is the Un-Bonny! It was full of regular ducks plus a few Greater Scaup, but zero geese. Turks Pond had a pair of Lincoln's Sparrows and Yellow-headed Blackbirds as its contribution to signs of spring and the Walsh water treatment ponds were productive. Birchfield SWA in thisclosetoKansas had Wild Turkey and Scaled Quail but no passerines. Continuing across southern Baca I believe I tallied 7 different Loggerhead Shrikes, another species on the move.
The weather and I seemed to arrive in Higbee at the same time, so I called it quits in La Junta to hope for better weather on the way back tomorrow.
Bill Kaempfer
Boulder
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