Friday, April 5, 2013

Visit to 20 Road Leks, Cameo and Grand Mesa

Rebecca Kosten: transcript from telephone message:

April 4, 2013

Richard Stevens and all continued their Grouse Trip with a visit to the 20 Road Leks, Routt County south of Hayden.  Two to four Sharp-tailed Grouse were seen shortly after sunrise.

They hustled over to the Coal Bank State Trust Land where another Sharp-tailed Grouse was found.  It required a 0.5-mile hike due to muddy roads.  Eighty Route Lek road is closed well before the second cattle guard (Dusky Grouse cattle guard) due to drifting snow and muddy.

A Chukar was found north of the closed gate at Coal Canyon, Cameo, Mesa County.  No Black-throated Sparrows have arrived yet.

At Fruitgrower's Reservoir, Delta County the many Western Grebes and Sandhill Cranes, no Long-tailed Duck was found.

On the Grand Mesa, Mesa County, they heard a Boreal Owl south of Spruce Grove Campgrounds.  A Northern Pygmy-Owl was heard at Powderhorn Ski Area.

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