December 23, 2017
We stuffed the car with birders and headed to Colorado Springs this morning. Rebecca Kosten, Terry Michaels, Sue Ehlmann and I had little trouble finding the Red-breasted Sapsucker in Colorado Springs. A mob of birders was already looking at it. It is nice to have an easy find now and then.
Temperatures only reached 41 degrees today. Winds were a mild 6 mph with gusts a few times to 14 mph.
Afterwards, we walked around Big Johnson Reservoir. Our hope to find a Snow Bunting was not fulfilled. A Lapland Longspur was discovered in a small flock of Horned Larks.
We returned to Denver by way of Highway 83 (the back route), much more interesting than Interstate 25. Attempts at finding an American Three-toed Woodpecker at Black Forest Regional Park and the Brant at Salisbury Equestrian Park (El Paso) failed.
We stuffed the car with birders and headed to Colorado Springs this morning. Rebecca Kosten, Terry Michaels, Sue Ehlmann and I had little trouble finding the Red-breasted Sapsucker in Colorado Springs. A mob of birders was already looking at it. It is nice to have an easy find now and then.
Temperatures only reached 41 degrees today. Winds were a mild 6 mph with gusts a few times to 14 mph.
Afterwards, we walked around Big Johnson Reservoir. Our hope to find a Snow Bunting was not fulfilled. A Lapland Longspur was discovered in a small flock of Horned Larks.
We returned to Denver by way of Highway 83 (the back route), much more interesting than Interstate 25. Attempts at finding an American Three-toed Woodpecker at Black Forest Regional Park and the Brant at Salisbury Equestrian Park (El Paso) failed.
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