COBirders,
If you are attending the Pikes Peak Birding and Nature Festival and are a participant in one of the two field trips to Chico Basin Ranch (El Paso and Pueblo counties) on Saturday, only about 15 miles east and south of Steve's banding area, yesterday's big storm did NOT extend east to The Chico but the bird fallout did. The roads were mostly dry today and the grasses too. Just a few of the many species recorded there today by a number of excellent birders include:
Red-necked Phalarope - only one, but more on Squirrel Creek Pond
American Redstart - 2 locations
Blackpoll Warbler – male = fine
Magnolia Warbler – male across from the fire station on the drive in
Northern Parula – eye arcs unfortunately
Mac Warbler – ditto the eye arcs
Least Flycatchers
Dusky Flycatchers
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo – my FOS – and the two common vireos
Bobolinks – 5 singing
Orchard Oriole – singing 2nd year yellow male
Hermit Thrush – lots
Swainson's Thrush – tons
Gray Catbirds - check
Brown Thrashers - Murray, Murray, Murray, hey bird, hey bird, I need you, I need you…
Peregrine Falcon – perched
Wild Turkeys – on the drive to and from
Ash-throated Flycatchers – breeders
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers – resident
Red-headed Woodpecker - yep
Northern Mockingbird - breeders
Curve-billed Thrasher – resident
Ruddy Ducks – knockout males
Lesser and American goldfinches – not mellow yellow
Great-tailed Grackles – too cool
Western Tanager – oh yeah
Black-headed Grosbeaks and possibly its closest relative
Blue Grosbeaks – un huh
Lark, Chipping, White-crowned, Brewer's, and Cassin's sparrows
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera
Bill Maynard
Colorado Springs, CO
From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Brown
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 1:52 PM
To: COBirds
Subject: [cobirds] N Waterthrush, #6,7, CSR, El Paso Co, Fri.
Hey COBirders,
At clear Spring Ranch this morning it was miserable wet, cold, windy, muddy, corn snow, and threatening, so, naturally, the birds were spectacular.
A very good day for me at CSR is 30 banded birds. I had 50 before 8:30. I was still catching a few birds when I finally closed at 12:30. Total 73 birds today.
Two Northern Waterthrush were caught early on, and small waves of several other species. The rush was over by 9:00, but small numbers continued to show up continuously. 7 species of warblers banded. Quite a morning!
Today:
Least Flycatcher (FOS)
3 Dusky Flycatcher
3 Warbling Vireo (FOS)
House Wren
10 Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
2 N Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
8 MacGillivray's Warbler
4 Com Yellowthroat
5 Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
5 Yellow-breasted Chat
Clay-colored Sparrow (FOS)
Mountain White-crowned Sparrow
8 Lincoln's Sparrow
2 Black-headed Grosbeak
7 Lazuli Bunting
Lesser Goldfinch (FOS)
4 American Goldfinch
and a few others I can't remember at the moment.
Whew!
Sent from my iPad
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