White-throated Swifts, Pueblo County
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mar...@juno.com
Jan 4, 2016, 12:19:42 PM1/4/16
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Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 3 Jan), from 3:20 to 3:45pm, I watched 20+ White-throated Swifts gather below the dam at Pueblo Reservoir. The saga continues!
For folks who would like to try for these birds, I find that the most reliable time and place is about 3pm at the pool directly below the dam, on a warmish day. They seem to gather here in the afternoon as they return from feeding along the river and before they head to their roost in the cliff north of the dam. I usually see them over the north end of the concrete portion of the dam.
This pool is reached by a gravel road off the small parking lot (known locally as the Free Lot) near the south entrance station below the dam, on the south side of the river.
No guarantees, of course. I don't know how weather and temperature affect their flight patterns. The high temperature here yesterday was about 50 degrees, and we seem to see them most reliably on warmer days.
Cheers,
Margie Joy
Pueblo West, CO
For folks who would like to try for these birds, I find that the most reliable time and place is about 3pm at the pool directly below the dam, on a warmish day. They seem to gather here in the afternoon as they return from feeding along the river and before they head to their roost in the cliff north of the dam. I usually see them over the north end of the concrete portion of the dam.
This pool is reached by a gravel road off the small parking lot (known locally as the Free Lot) near the south entrance station below the dam, on the south side of the river.
No guarantees, of course. I don't know how weather and temperature affect their flight patterns. The high temperature here yesterday was about 50 degrees, and we seem to see them most reliably on warmer days.
Cheers,
Margie Joy
Pueblo West, CO
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