Grouse Trip

March 24-29, 2014

Richard Stevens:

I have a one day layover in Denver before starting another grouse trip.  There is no time to go into details on this trip.  Hopefully, I will have more time next week to get into particulars of a grouse trip.

March 24
++++Loveland Pass
White-tailed Ptarmigan: hill west/hwy 6/across from 2nd pullover/east/hwy 6/south of Summit of Pass
++++Silverthorne
Rosy Finches: three species about 100 birds
Barrow's Goldeneyes: several at the Blue River Water Treatment Plant
++++Jackson County Road 26b Leks
Greater Sage-Grouse: Fourteen males and two females

March 25
++++Twenty Road Leks
Sharp-tailed Grouse: only two birds, well after sunrise
++++Coal Canyon
Chukar: two birds just north of closed pipe gate
++++Grand Mesa
Boreal Owls: three spread over two locations

March 26
++++Colorado National Monument
Pinyon Jays: at Campgrounds
++++Escalante Canyon
Black Phoebe: along creek, just east of Pinnacle Rock
++++Fruitgrower's Reservoir
Sandhill Cranes: many
Common Loon
++++Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park
Dusky Grouse: one along south rim drive, east of Campgrounds entrance

March 27
++++Waunita Hot Springs Lek
Gunnison Sage-Grouse: only half a dozen birds
++++Swallows Road
Curve-billed Thrasher: 2
Scaled Quail: 2
++++Elkhart, KS
Lesser Prairie-Chickens: only two birds

March 28
++++Yuma County Road 45 Leks
Greater Prairie-Chickens: nine males displaying

March 29
++++Pawnee National Grasslands
Mountain Plover: one along CR 96

Mountain Plover: one at traditional nesting sites (will remain unnamed)
++++Loloff Reservoir
Tundra Swan
++++near Lower Latham Reservoir
Short-eared Owl: one north of reservoir