Fountain Creek Ann. Spring Count, El Paso County

[Stephen Getty]

COBirders,

 

About 35 birders spread-out in 5 teams for the annual FCRP spring count. Numbers seemed down compared with last week, but some rarities were:

 

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Brown Thrasher

Clay-colored Sparrow

Summer Tanager (female right after the official count period; 200 ft down trail south of large waterfall)

 

Bald Eagle continues in park (displaced from Big Johnson?)

 

Baltimore Oriole – not sighted today (to my knowledge)

 

Cordially,

Steve Getty, Colorado Springs