September 20, 2013
Richard Stevens:
Birding at Wildlife Areas is still limited by recent floods. Bryan Ehlmann and I checked out the northern side of Jumbo Reservoir (Logan/Sedgwick) and found a Blackpoll Warbler. A juvenile Sabine's Gull was over the lake. The resident Eastern Screech-Owls did not call this morning.
Duck Creek Wildlife Area was about the only Wildlife Area open. It is quite a ways north of the South Platte River, which has closed State Parks and Wildlife Areas along its banks.
A Bell's Vireo and Gray Flycatcher flew around Duck Creek. It is getting late to find Bell's Vireos in Colorado. We were quite happy to find one in September.
We spent the rest of the daylight visiting Walk-In-Areas in Logan & Sedgwick Counties. See "Colorado Field Notes" for information on access on these birding gems.
We label the Walk-In-Areas by their southeastern corners (west-east X north-south rds). Some of the interesting birds found included:
Sedgwick 30X9
White-throated Sparrow
Sedgwick 30X11
Field Sparrow
Sedgwick 8X55
Field Sparrow
Sedgwick 10X55
Bell's Vireo!
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Sedgwick 6X17
White-throated Sparrow (2)
Field Sparrow
Logan 30X93
White-winged Dove
Logan 28X85
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Townsend's Warbler!
Logan 4X77
Eastern Whip-poor Will
Note: We received a report from a friend in Ovid that they heard an Eastern Whip-poor-will 9/16 through 9/19.
Ovid woods also had:
Red-bellied Woodpecker (9/15 through 9/20)
Eastern Bluebirds (4, 9/19 through 9/20)
Nashville Warbler (9/19)
Ovid was visited by a young Purple Finch on 9/19 & 9/20. We are hoping it will hang around until Monday or Tuesday.
Richard Stevens:
Birding at Wildlife Areas is still limited by recent floods. Bryan Ehlmann and I checked out the northern side of Jumbo Reservoir (Logan/Sedgwick) and found a Blackpoll Warbler. A juvenile Sabine's Gull was over the lake. The resident Eastern Screech-Owls did not call this morning.
Duck Creek Wildlife Area was about the only Wildlife Area open. It is quite a ways north of the South Platte River, which has closed State Parks and Wildlife Areas along its banks.
A Bell's Vireo and Gray Flycatcher flew around Duck Creek. It is getting late to find Bell's Vireos in Colorado. We were quite happy to find one in September.
We spent the rest of the daylight visiting Walk-In-Areas in Logan & Sedgwick Counties. See "Colorado Field Notes" for information on access on these birding gems.
We label the Walk-In-Areas by their southeastern corners (west-east X north-south rds). Some of the interesting birds found included:
Sedgwick 30X9
White-throated Sparrow
Sedgwick 30X11
Field Sparrow
Sedgwick 8X55
Field Sparrow
Sedgwick 10X55
Bell's Vireo!
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Sedgwick 6X17
White-throated Sparrow (2)
Field Sparrow
Logan 30X93
White-winged Dove
Logan 28X85
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Townsend's Warbler!
Logan 4X77
Eastern Whip-poor Will
Note: We received a report from a friend in Ovid that they heard an Eastern Whip-poor-will 9/16 through 9/19.
Ovid woods also had:
Red-bellied Woodpecker (9/15 through 9/20)
Eastern Bluebirds (4, 9/19 through 9/20)
Nashville Warbler (9/19)
Ovid was visited by a young Purple Finch on 9/19 & 9/20. We are hoping it will hang around until Monday or Tuesday.
1 comment:
Richard,
I bird for fun when I get the chance. I live in Boulder , but am intrigued by all the eastern colorado birding sights you explore. I have a ranch in far western kansas with a nice stand of trees and dense underbrush on a small section of it. My wife and I try to cover it when we are out there. Very tough in the fall , and was wondering if you would be interested in helping one of these weekends when we are out there. My e-mail is astormchaser2002@yahoo.com
For example , this past year I had a couple of Pileated Wood Peckers, and A Blue Grosbeak + we seem to have breeding Red Headed Wood Peckers in the Summer and Red Bellied in the spring. Resident Year round Cardinals etc etc.. 70 miles east of of the border.
Who knows what we have now !
-art
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