Red-bellied Woodpecker - Pueblo 5/25

[Brandon]

The Red-bellied Woodpecker that has been in Pueblo, since October, is still west of the Pueblo Nature Center, along the Arkansas River in Pueblo County, this morning (25 May).  There are still many mountain breeding species in Pueblo today, which sometimes by late May, they are mostly gone from Pueblo.  Wilson's Warblers, Audubon's (Yellow-rumped), MacGillivray's Warblers, Plumbeous Vireo, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Tanagers, White-crowned and Lincoln's Sparrow, to name a few.  I ended up with 61 species of birds at the Pueblo Nature Center area this morning.  At the Pueblo West Gravel Pit pond (between the Nature Center and Osprey Picnic Area), a Red-necked Phalarope continues and there was also a Great Egret, two Snowy Egrets were west of the Pueblo Nature Center this morning.

Good birding,

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Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO