Saturday, August 3, 2013

Wet Mountains to Westcliffe

July 16, 2013

Richard Stevens:

Last night, we camped up Wet Mountains in Custer County.  A Common Poorwill called before dusk.  No owls but another rainstorm came in the afternoon.

Highlights included American Three-toed Woodpeckers at two locations.  Most of the hummingbirds encountered were Broad-tailed Hummingbirds.  We did see two Rufous Hummingbirds!

In the afternoon, we walked around DeWeese Reservoir (Custer County).  Lesser Goldfinches, Pine Siskins and three species of nuthatches were found.  A Northern Waterthrush walked around below the dam.

Another rainstorm and owling was a bust.  I did not want to expose our "owl listening stations" to the wet weather.  We did walk around Grape Creek without hearing an owl.

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