February 7, 2019
Richard Stevens:
What a cold day. High temperature was 14 degrees. Winds were 6-7 mph with gusts to 11 mph.
I drove Yuma CR 45 about an hour before sunrise. No Short-eared Owls flew around this morning. Many Horned Larks and two Lapland Longspurs ran up and down the road.
A Greater Prairie-Chicken called from the north side of the road. No Greater Prairie-Chickens visited the CR 45 Lek. No additional Greater Prairie-Chickens were found when I drove the road to the Kitzmiller Ranch (private Greater Prairie-Chicken tours later in the year).
I visited friends in Wray most of the day. Spread over four yards highlights included four male and two female Northern Cardinals, one Eastern Screech-Owl, one young male Purple Finch and one red Fox Sparrow.
A return to CR 45 at sunset did not find any Greater Prairie-Chickens.
Misses: Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, Winter Wrens, uncommon birds at Stalker Ponds and the Wray Fishing Unit.
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