Pueblo County Big Day on 5/14

[Brandon K. Percival]

Van Truan and I did an all Pueblo County Big Day yesterday.  We ended with 160 species.  We are hoping the final total for all the official counters around Pueblo County yesterday, will end up to around 200 species for the entire County.  Results are coming in and we'll let you know.  Thanks to all the official counters who helped.

 

Our highlights were as follows:

Canvasback - 1 female at Lake Minnequa in Pueblo

Hooded Merganser - 1 male at Lake Minnequa in Pueblo

Black Rail - 4 in marshes on 40th Lane

Black-necked Stilt - 1 in the pool below Pueblo Reservoir dam

Snowy Plover - 1 at Huerfano Reservoir

Bonaparte's Gull - 1 at Pueblo Reservoir and 4 at Lake Minnequa

Lesser Black-backed Gull (?) - 1 4th year at Pueblo Reservoir at South Shore Marina tires.

Black Tern - 1 at Huerfano Reservoir

Acorn Woodpecker - 1 Pueblo Mountain Park in Beulah -- hopefully the offical counter for this location (Rich Miller) saw two of them

Black Phoebe - 1 west of Valco Ponds parking lot

Eastern Phoebe - 1 singing at Graneros Gorge, 1 singing on Siloam Road

American Dipper - 1 singing in Beulah

Ovenbird -1 singing above Beulah at stakeout location

Northern Waterthrush - 1 near Fish Hatchery Ponds, below Pueblo Reservoir dam

Grace's Warbler - 1 singing male at Pueblo Mountain Park upper section, not near Horseshoe Lodge

Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 singing male at Pueblo City Park

With all the easy species we missed, including all small owls and nightjars, maybe the species total for the county yesterday will reach 200.  We had a lot of people helping this year, so we'll see.  Thanks to Dave Silverman for organizing the Pueblo County Spring and Fall Counts for many years.  It was fun to spend 20+ hours birding with uncle Van, which doesn't happen too often.

Brandon Percival

Pueblo West, CO