Thursday, July 19, 2012

Gunnison to Denver

July 17, 2012

Gunnison Back to Denver:

Sue Ehlmann:
Rebecca Kosten and I returned from the Western slope today. The guys are driving Divide Road, Uncompahgre Plateau today. The two of us stayed in Gunnison last night. This morning we drove Gunnison County Road 38 looking for a Chestnut-sided Warbler sighting that was sent to us on Monday morning.

We did not find it but did see 7 Gunnison Sage Grouse just north of the intersection with county road 38a. For anyone willing to look for the Chestnut-sided Warbler, it was seen in the ditch on the west side of county road 38 just before the intersection with county road 38a. A Chestnut-sided Warbler was photographed by Robert Lockert on 10/17/2007 and was pretty close to the same area. I believe that photo is on the CoBus photo library.

Rebecca Kosten:
Back in Denver: Sue Ehlmann and I went out for food and took the DIA Owl loop home.

While counting Burrowing Owls at the prairie dog town at 3.4 miles east of Tower Road and 96th avenue we saw a Short eared Owl flying over the field to the east.

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