[cobirds] Pueblo interesting birds on Jan 1st

Arkansas River, below Pueblo Reservoir dam, with David Chartier -- we walked for like 3 miles:

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1

Black Phoebe - 1

Winter Wren - 1

Say's Phoebe - 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3

Rock Wren - 1

Curve-billed Thrasher - 3

Ruby-crowned Kinglets

Bushtits

Bewick's Wrens

White-breasted (Interior West) Nuthatches

Black-capped Chickadees

Wild Turkeys

Bald Eagle

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Pueblo Reservoir (birded with David Chartier in the morning and the Denver crowd in the afternoon)

Long-tailed Duck - 7 swimming together, also saw two in flight before this, could be different birds, who knows

Barrow's Goldeneye - 1 male

Red-breasted Mergansers

Ruddy Duck - 2

Diving ducks, Canvasback, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup

Dabbling Ducks, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, American Wigeon, etc.

Clark's Grebe - 1

Great Black-backed Gull - 1 adult

Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 adults, 1 1st year bird

Thayer's Gull - 1-2 adults, 1 juvenile

Bonaparte's Gull - 25

Common Loon - 2-3

Horned, Eared, Western Grebes (as well as Pied-billed)

Double-crested Cormorants

Say's Phoebe - 1

Mountain Bluebirds, Pine Siskins, American Goldfinches

Scaled Quail -20+

Mourning Dove - 2

Sunset Park area of Pueblo:

White-winged Dove - 1 

I ended up with 87 species of birds around Pueblo on 1 January.  Not a bad start.  Not sure I'll make it to 100 species in two days, as I seem to still be at home this morning.

Good birding,

Brandon Percival

Pueblo West, CO