In my recent summary of the 23August-3September visit to Lamar, I forgot to mention a few things.
Lamar is in Prowers County, Tempel's Grove is in Bent, and the Great Plains Reservoirs are in Kiowa.
Janeal and I saw and photographed an amazing hungry bird episode at Riverside Cemetery in Lamar: a Great-crested Flycatcher catching and eating a green mantis, probably a European Mantis (Mantis religiosa).
Also, we saw and photographed a Great-crested Flycatcher catching and eating a fairly large "tarantula hawk" wasp (genus Pepsis) along the Fort Lyon Ditch southeast of Tempel's Grove.
I have been advised by Steve Mlodinow (and indirectly by Marshall Iliff) that an ibis we thought might be Glossy at Upper Queens is probably best left as Plegadis sp.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
Lamar is in Prowers County, Tempel's Grove is in Bent, and the Great Plains Reservoirs are in Kiowa.
Janeal and I saw and photographed an amazing hungry bird episode at Riverside Cemetery in Lamar: a Great-crested Flycatcher catching and eating a green mantis, probably a European Mantis (Mantis religiosa).
Also, we saw and photographed a Great-crested Flycatcher catching and eating a fairly large "tarantula hawk" wasp (genus Pepsis) along the Fort Lyon Ditch southeast of Tempel's Grove.
I have been advised by Steve Mlodinow (and indirectly by Marshall Iliff) that an ibis we thought might be Glossy at Upper Queens is probably best left as Plegadis sp.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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