26-27February 2015 Lamar (Prowers) Colorado

[Janeal Thompson]

We have had a few inches of snow this past week and temperatures in the teens and twenties in Lamar (Prowers). The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker found by Dave Leatherman earlier in the year is still in the southern most pine trees on the Parkview Avenue (west) side across from house numbers 1305 and 1305A.  Willow Creek Park, Lamar Community College, Fairmount Cemetery and Willow Valley Subdivision are all hosting Red-bellied Woodpeckers, White-breasted and Red-breasted Nuthatches, and other expected winter visitors in good numbers. Yesterday, 27Feb2015, a lone Brown Creeper was busy foraging on cottonwood trunks near the feeder across from the college library. (For those interested,the Northern Cardinals are being seen regularly on the south end of LCC near the housing development.)  A bit farther south of LCC, along Willow Creek, a Northern Mockingbird was found in some tamarisk, but the Brewer's Blackbirds and the lone Common Grackle seen by Jane Stulp and myself, respectively, have not been there for a while.  The Russian olives at the Prowers Medical Center Campus host Cedar Waxwings, several Red-winged Blackbirds and American Robins.  A few beautiful Eastern Bluebirds often line the fence on the east (prairie) side of the PMC Drive. 

Janeal Thompson

Lamar, CO