[cobirds] Foothills Audubon PNG Trip and Sandhill Cranes!/Weld

Hi all

Fantastic day for our Pawnee trip on Saturday with Foothills Audubon club. We tallied a total of 56 species roaming from Nunn to CR 124 Pond to Crow Valley Campground.

Highlights include:

• Spotted Towhee (my yard)
• Cooper's Hawk (Lone Tree Creek @ CR 110)
• Say's Phoebe, Great Horned Owl, Lapland Longspur, Rock Wren, Sage Thrasher, House Wren, Blue Grosbeak and Clay-colored Sparrow (CR 41/102-area)
• Prairie Falcon (3) and Peregrine Falcon (CR 124)
• American Pipit (CR 124 Pond)
• Townsend's Solitaire, Hairy Woodpecker and unknown thermal soaring raptor-speculate one of the two Broad-winged Hawk seen earlier in week here)

Rest of birds: Bluejay, White-crowned Sparrow, House Sparrow, Eurasian-collared Dove, European Starling, Western Meadowlark, Horned Lark, House Finch, Rock Pigeon, Mallard, American Kestrel, Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Flicker, Wilson's Warbler, Northern Harrier, American Goldfinch, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Vesper Sparrow, Ferruginous Hawk, Brewer's Sparrow, Mourning Dove, Barn Swallow, Western Wood-Pewee, Swainson's Hawk, Canada Goose, American White Pelican, Greater Yellowlegs, Red-winged Blackbird, Wilson's Snipe, Killdeer, Green-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, American Coot, Baird's Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, American Avocet, Gadwall, Geat Blue Heron, Double-crested Cormorant, and Downy Woodpecker.

Some photos: http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/237/foothills-audubon-png-trip-9-25-2021

Sunday best bird is 30 Sandhill Crane riding thermals above CR 59 march east of Kersey.

Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn

http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland

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