Pueblo & El Paso counties, May 9-10

[Ted Floyd]

Hello, Birders.

Lots of great birds were found during the inaugural Pikes Peak Birding & Nature Festival, held this past Friday-Sunday, May 8-10. And extraordinary weather; at one point on Saturday, Colorado Springs was simultaneously under five different National Weather Service warnings! I was on the Saturday, May 9 field trip to Pueblo County, and the Sunday, May 10 field trip to Fountain Creek Regional Park. Highlights:

Rock Canyon, below Pueblo Reservoir, Pueblo County, May 9. red-headed woodpecker; gray flycatcher; black-and-white warbler.

Pueblo City Park, Pueblo County, May 9. 2 green herons.

Fountain Creek Regional Park, El Paso County, May 10. 12 species of warblers, including northern waterthrush, Tennessee warbler, black-throated blue warbler, and palm warbler; broad-winged hawk and peregrine falcon; least flycatcher and gray flycatcher; eastern bluebird; and rose-breasted grosbeak.

On the drive back to Boulder County Sunday afternoon, I stopped by Sondermann Park, El Paso County, where Allan Burns and I saw a broad-winged hawk and 2 gray flycatchers.

Oh, and I heard a northern waterthrush this sunny (what! sun? what's that?) Monday morning, May 11, at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County.

Links to photos:

curve-billed thrasher, Pueblo Reservoir, http://tinyurl.com/CBTh-2015-05-09

scaled quail, Pueblo Reservoir, http://tinyurl.com/ScQu-2015-05-09

rock wren, Pueblo Reservoir, http://tinyurl.com/RoWr-2015-05-09

olive-sided flycatcher, Rock Canyon, http://tinyurl.com/OSFl-2015-05-09

gray flycatcher, Rock Canyon, http:///tinyurl.com/GrFl-2015-05-09

Cassin kingbird, Rock Canyon, http://tinyurl.com/CaKi-2015-05-09

Bewick wren, Rock Canyon, http://tinyurl.com/BeWr-2015-05-09

green heron, Pueblo City Park, http://tinyurl.com/GrHe-2015-05-09

rose-breasted grosbeak, Fountain Creek, http://tinyurl.com/RBGr-2015-05-10

Audubon warbler, Fountain Creek, http://tinyurl.com/AuWa-2015-05-10

broad-tailed hummingbird, Fountain Creek, http://tinyurl.com/BTlH-2015-05-10

northern waterthrush, Fountain Creek, http://tinyurl.com/NoWa-2015-05-10

solitary sandpiper, Fountain Creek, http://tinyurl.com/SoSa-2015-05-10a

gray flycatcher, Sondermann Park, http://tinyurl.com/GrFl-2015-05-10

Links to audio:

curve-billed thrasher, Pueblo Reservoir, http://www.xeno-canto.org/241097

Bewick wren, Rock Canyon, http://www.xeno-canto.org/241099

black-throated blue warbler, Fountain Creek, http://www.xeno-canto.org/241102

northern waterthrush, Fountain Creek, http://www.xeno-canto.org/241101

Links to eBird checklists:

Pueblo Reservoir, May 9, http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23376900

Rock Canyon, May 9, http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23376944

Pueblo City Park, May 9, http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23377056

Fountain Creek Regional Park, May 10, http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23376871

Sondermann Park, May 10, http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23376884

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Bouder County