Thursday, September 29, 2011

Pawnee National Grasslands Playa and Owling in High Country

September 26-27, 2011

Rebecca Kosten;

Richard Stevens and I stopped by the newly filled and named flooded field at Weld County Road 75 between County Road 100 and 102. Many shorebirds took advantage of the temporary water hole.

We saw American Golden-Plovers, Black-bellied Plovers, Pectoral Sandpipers and some other smaller shorebirds. The highlight for us was two Mountain Plovers.

Later Bryan and Sue Ehlmann met us west of Loveland (highway 34 and Larimer County Road 27). We headed up to Pennock Pass for some owling. Eventually three Flammulated Owls were found east and north of Pennock Pass' Summit!

On the way to Gould, we made four stops and heard Boreal Owls at two of them. Successful stops were the upper parking lot for the Joe Wright Reservoir and just west of Cameron Pass.


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