Monday, 8 December 2014

[cobirds] Lamar area (Prowers) on 12/8

Willow Creek Park
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (juv)  northwest corner, favoring a pine due east of the yard between 1306 and 1305A 1st Street (this is the southernmost pine along the northwest edge of the park)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1m)  working on an elm very near the sapsucker location

Thurston Reservoir 5 miles north of town
Virginia Rail (heard)  north side near the little pump house
Marsh Wren (1)     ditto

Willow Valley Subdivision (private yard)
White-winged Dove (4)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (4)
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch (Carolina race)

Dirt roads north of town, mostly along irrigation ditches
Harlan's Hawk (at least 3)
Merlin (1m prairie race)
Mourning Dove (flock of 15)
Pine Siskin (two small groups in with American Goldfinches beside the road eating wild sunflower seed)
Lapland Longspur (heard)

Looked at a zillion Zonotrichia sparrows today but did not turn up anything besides Gambel's White-crowns.  Did not go to LCC Woods or Two Buttes.  Tempel's Grove is now a testament to the power of tumbleweed, wind, and drought.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

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