[cobirds] Rusty Blackbirds at Blanca Wetlands

My wife Lisa does wetland water work and is a biologist at Blanca Wetlands. One of her monitoring game cameras picked up a bird that looked a lot like Rusty Blackbird. I went out looking a few days later and came up empty. But yesterday, she found the bird, and turns out to be a minimum of three, maybe 5 birds out there. 

Here's the catch however. The area closes for the nesting season on the 15th Feb, in 3 days. Couple that with incoming storms and the window of opportunity is slim. 

The birds seem to frequent the watchable wildlife area, in the Russian olives surrounding the lake immediately north of the Watchable parking lot. 

These birds represent the likely first records for the species in the San Luis Valley. 

On another subject, the cranes are returning to the Valley, so far in small and widespread flocks.  The bulk of them are yet to return. 

John Rawinski

Monte Vista, CO

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