Back to Northern Colorado

September 4-5, 2014

Bryan Ehlmann and I headed back to Jackson County.  A stop at a friend's ranch west of Loveland (Larimer) did not find one of his resident Northern Saw-whet Owls that he called about yesterday.  A second report of a Northern Saw-whet Owl at a private ranch in Jackson County also did not pan out.

After dark, we relocated a Boreal Owl along Ruby Jewell Road at 0.4 miles east of the Michigan Creek Road.  The Flammulated Owl called again at 0.2 miles up Ruby Jewell Road.

On 9/5, we once again found the male American Three-toed Woodpecker north of hwy 14 (across from the Colorado State Forest Visitor's Center).  Another American Three-toed Woodpecker was found along the east side of Chambers Lake (Larimer) as we headed to Pawnee National Grasslands.

Yet a third Northern Saw-whet Owl was reported to us by a friend who has a ranch north of the Pawnee National Grasslands.  Once again, it was gone by the time we arrived.  A bonus was a young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak visiting his feeders.

A Short-eared Owl was found on the north side of Lower Latham Reservoir (Weld) when we went to check for shorebirds along CR 48 and CR 42 (Beebe Draw Ponds).

We continued east to Sedgwick County for another search for Sprague's Pipits.