Eastern Arapahoe County Roads

May 31, 2018

Richard Stevens:

Rebecca and I drove some of the eastern Arapahoe County Roads in the afternoon.  High temperature was only 82 degrees; it felt much warmer.  The hot winds had sometime to do with that.  Winds were 15-16 mph with gusts to 23 mph on the eastern plains.

Nothing rare was found.  We did relocate the Burrowing Owl along CR 30, 1.7 miles east of CR 149.  Three Burrowing Owls were still along CR 129 at 0.7 miles south of Orchard Road.

We searched several locations where Red-headed Woodpeckers nested last year.  None was found today.  Last year's Dickcissel spots had none yet this summer.

Birds encountered in no particular order or location included two Cassin's Sparrows, four McCown's Longspurs, nine Loggerhead Shrikes, and an out of place White Pelican.  The pelican was on the ground and nowhere near water?

Misses: Red-headed Woodpeckers, Northern Mockingbirds, or shorebirds (Upland Sandpipers or Mountain Plovers).

Eurasian Collared-Doves seem everywhere, as usual.  One tree along CR 42 had fourteen Mourning Doves and two Eurasian Collared-Doves.

Two Common Nighthawks flew overhead around dusk at County Line Road, east of CR 129.