Thursday, January 19, 2012

Birding In the Mountains

January 19, 2012

Richard Stevens:

Yesterday, I talked about conjuring up White-tailed Ptarmigan. It did not happen today. We searched Loveland Pass (Clear Creek County) for a total of six hours during two different stops. No Ptarmigan were found as we covered 2-3 miles of the area.

Highlights had to be three species of Rosy Finches at a private yard and 10 Barrow's Goldeneyes at the Blue River Water Treatment Plant (Summit County).

After dropping Robin Quintanilla and Mark Talbott off, I stopped at Star K Ranch Open Space (Adams). The Harris's Sparrow appeared below the feeders around sunset (in spite of the feeders having been taken down).

No owl activity was detected along the DIA Owl Loop (Adams County).

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