Colorado Combined Yard List update
Thomas Heinrich
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck |
| Pink-footed Goose |
| Barnacle Goose |
| Garganey |
| Eurasian Wigeon |
| Mexican Duck |
| American Black Duck |
| Mottled Duck |
| Tufted Duck |
| Harlequin Duck |
| White-winged Scoter |
| California Quail |
| Ruffed Grouse |
| White-tailed Ptarmigan |
| Greater Sage-Grouse |
| Gunnison Sage-Grouse |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse |
| Greater Prairie-Chicken |
| Red-necked Grebe |
| Groove-billed Ani |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will |
| Mexican Whip-poor-will |
| Vaux's Swift |
| King Rail |
| Common Gallinule |
| Purple Gallinule |
| Yellow Rail |
| Black Rail |
| Limpkin |
| Whooping Crane |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| American Golden-Plover |
| Piping Plover |
| Snowy Plover |
| Eskimo Curlew |
| Hudsonian Godwit |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Red Knot |
| Ruff |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
| Curlew Sandpiper |
| Dunlin |
| Purple Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Willet |
| Red Phalarope |
| Pomarine Jaeger |
| Parasitic Jaeger |
| Long-tailed Jaeger |
| Long-billed Murrelet |
| Ancient Murrelet |
| Black-legged Kittiwake |
| Ivory Gull |
| Sabine's Gull |
| Black-headed Gull |
| Little Gull |
| Ross's Gull |
| Laughing Gull |
| Short-billed Gull |
| Western Gull |
| Slaty-backed Gull |
| Glaucous-winged Gull |
| Kelp Gull |
| Sooty Tern |
| Least Tern |
| Arctic Tern |
| Royal Tern |
| Sandwich Tern |
| Black Skimmer |
| Red-throated Loon |
| Arctic Loon |
| Pacific Loon |
| Yellow-billed Loon |
| Wood Stork |
| Magnificent Frigatebird |
| Brown Booby |
| Neotropic Cormorant |
| Brown Pelican |
| Least Bittern |
| Tricolored Heron |
| Reddish Egret |
| White Ibis |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Roseate Spoonbill |
| Black Vulture |
| White-tailed Kite |
| Common Black Hawk |
| Harris's Hawk |
| Variable Hawk |
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
| Zone-tailed Hawk |
| Snowy Owl |
| Spotted Owl |
| Barred Owl |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker |
| Crested Caracara |
| Gyrfalcon |
| Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
| Brown-crested Flycatcher |
| Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher |
| Tropical Kingbird |
| Couch's Kingbird |
| Thick-billed Kingbird |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher |
| Acadian Flycatcher |
| Buff-breasted Flycatcher |
| Gray Vireo |
| Yellow-green Vireo |
| Cave Swallow |
| Cactus Wren |
| Pacific Wren |
| Sedge Wren |
| Bendire's Thrasher |
| Rufous-backed Robin |
| Sprague's Pipit |
| Cassia Crossbill |
| Smith's Longspur |
| Black-chinned Sparrow |
| LeConte's Sparrow |
| Nelson's Sparrow |
| Baird's Sparrow |
| Henslow's Sparrow |
| Chihuahuan Meadowlark |
| Louisiana Waterthrush |
| Swainson's Warbler |
| Lucy's Warbler |
| Tropical Parula |
| Grace's Warbler |
| Golden-crowned Warbler |
| Hepatic Tanager |
jand...@comcast.net
Thomas, thanks for provoking a really interesting thread. Gives renewed respectability to sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea gazing idly through a window…
Location/habitat: urban, suburban, rural, etc?
We are in the Baca Grande, Crestone, Saguache County at 8000 ft in pure Pinyon Juniper habitat but about a half mile from Willow Creek with riparian Ponderosa, Aspen, and Cottonwood. Most willows and brush cleared out for fire mitigation.
How long have you been keeping your list?
In Colorado, we have had feeders since 1971. In Crestone, intermittently, since 2000, as we visit irregularly for a month or so at a time – two feeders are maintained by a friend when we aren’t there.
What's your style of yard listing: casual, mainly feeder watching, moderate, dedicated, obsessed?
When in residence, we maintain multiple feeders, bird baths, and some brush piles. My wife, Bayard, is dedicated. She would call me obsessed!
How many species?
95 on the property with an additional 12 within a half mile radius, along Willow Creek.
In addition, the Mule Deer vacuum up sunflower. Black Bear (when we forget to bring in the feeders) eat the suet and the feeders. Coyote are frequent visitors, and Gray Fox and Bobcat irregular visitors. This year a stunning Abert’s (Tufted-eared) Squirrel has graced us with their presence.
Rarest, or favorite species?
Probably, the rarest species on the property: Orchard Oriole, Blue Jay, Yellow-breasted Chat, Lazuli Bunting. Due to our location in the Sangres, the appearance of any “eastern species” is a big event, such as when N. Parula and Hooded Warbler were found close by.
Flocks of Pinyon Jays (which are running at 45 this year, with a high count of 95 at feeders in years past) which visit every three hours or so, are a sight to behold and to hear and expensive to satisfy.
Each year, we have something unique to record: this year we have had a flock of 12-15 Bushtits who swarm a suet cake until it becomes just a hanging “hive” of bushtits.
Notably absent from our list is any Rosy Finch or Red Crossbill – both species are difficult to find in Saguache County. We also missed a Scott’s Oriole which was seen for a week or more at another feeder in the Baca.
Most memorable experience?
Two Williamson’s Sapsuckers hanging out at our bird bath for a couple of days in
late fall. When we are there in mid-May, suet and oranges attract large numbers of Western Tanagers (high count 14), Black-headed Grosbeaks and Bullock’s Orioles providing colorful chaos for 5-6 days.
John and Bayard Cobb
Currently Denver
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Doug Ward
Tom,
Just back into cell/internet range and getting caught up on your “little” yard list project. It’s been fun reading folks encounters and amazing finds in their respective yards. Figured I wouldn’t have anything to add to the master list, but thanks to your needs list, I was wrong! Depending on your statute of limitations, you can add GREATER SAGE-GROUSE which used to come and feed under our feeder in the winter when we lived on a ranch in Axial Basin (south central Moffat Co.) in the late ‘70s. So now you are up to 386, truly an incredible number!
Good Birding,
Doug
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Hi all,
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