Sunday, January 31, 2010

Search for More Owls, Douglas County

January 30-31, 2010

Bryan Ehlmann:

Rich Stevens and I spent most of Friday night into Saturday morning searching for Northern Pygmy-Owls around the Decker and Cheesman Reservoir areas of Douglas County.

We managed to get GPS waypoints on three "heard only" Northern Pygmy-Owls along Deckers Road. One of them was seen flying across our spotlight, but could not be relocated once it landed. No other owls were found.

After sunrise, we searched for woodpeckers (Lewis's, Red-headed and Three-toed) around Cheesman Reservoir. Two Three-toed Woodpeckers were found along Cheesman Canyon trail. We struck out on the other two woodpeckers.

We stopped briefly at the Lewis's Woodpecker site near Louviers. The Lewis's Woodpeckers did not show up in our 30-minute stay.

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