Saturday, August 4, 2007

A few lakes in San Miguel County

Friday August 3, 2007

Our goal was to end the day at Woods Lake in San Miguel County.

We decided to drive north and checkout Miramonte Reservoir. The area around the lake is the Dan Noble Wildlife Area. A Black Swift was flying over as we exited our jeep. Shorebirds included a Marbled Godwit and Greater Yellowlegs! A small mixed (male and female) of Red Crossbills were on firs. Two Sage Thrashers were found on the sagebrush.

There have been reports of Gunnison Sage-Grouse previously. That would have been great, but we did not find any.

We stopped briefly and found one Grace's Warbler near Gurley Reservoir (private property).

We arrived at Woods Lake about an hour before sunset. The usual species were observed, nothing uncommon. The Wildlife Area is typical Spruce-Fir habitat. We did see several Hammond's and Cordilleran Flycatchers.

Our owl drought ended when a Northern Saw-whet Owl called! We also got 2 Northern Pygmy-Owls to respond to our playback recordings.

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