Northern Waterthrush -- Pueblo County 5/3

[Brandon Percival]

I walked all of the Valco Ponds side of the River this morning, below Pueblo Reservoir dam (Pueblo County).  The best migrant was a Northern Waterthrush, it was close to the Arkansas River, just east of the two Fish Hatchery Ponds.  A few getting late ducks were around Valco Ponds area today too, Canvasback - 1, Bufflehead - 1, Ring-necked Duck - 1, Lesser Scaup - 8.  Other birds were a Solitary Sandpiper, Yellow Warbler - 2 singing, Brown Thrasher - 2, Black Phoebe - 1, Eastern Phoebe - 1, Bullock's Oriole - 3, Western Kingbird -1, Forster's Tern - 2 (first found by Margie Joy, earlier in the day), Orange-crowned Warbler - 2, Common Yellowthroat - 1, Lincoln's Sparrow - 1, Yellow-rumped Warblers, lots of swallows.  Yesterday, in Rock Canyon (Pueblo County), I got looks at a Dusky Flycatcher.

See many of you at Lamar and SE Colorado (and Oklahoma),

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Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO