Birders,
I thank Mark Peterson for posting the adult male Mourning Warbler from Tempel Grove in Bent County this afternoon. I saw and photographed it on three separate passes through the hotspot south of the memorial benches, but it played “hard to get” for the CFO group there when I left late this afternoon. West of County Road 35, I found a male Blackpoll Warbler and male American Redstart while waiting for a friend to show up. These birds did reappear, and many from CFO got to see them. The CFO group also saw an immature male Summer Tanager and immature light-morph Broad-winged Hawk.
Working with the Verhoeff family, approximately 20 CFO birders got to see the continuing Hudsonian Godwit in flooded fields at the intersection of Bent County Roads 26.5 and JJ late this afternoon. I’m sure it was a lifer for many. This update has a bittersweet ending. Irrigation will be discontinued at dusk tonight, and it is highly unlikely that any more sightings will take place once the fields contain no standing water, which I expect will be the case tomorrow.
Duane Nelson
Las Animas, Bent County, CO
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