Birding by Bike [Poudre River Trail, Greeley, Weld]

[The "Nunn Guy"]

Hi all

I birded by bike Island Grover Park to 71st Avenue yesterday (7.7m one-way; 15.4m r/t) and got 45 total species to include:

Spring highlights:

• Female Bullock's Oriole
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Horned Grebe - 15
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Common Grackle
• Osprey
• Mourning Dove
• Killdeer
• Mute Swan (Fst Street)
  
• American White Pelican
• Blue-winged Teal

Rest:  Rock Pigeon, Eurasian-collared Dove, House Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, American Robin, European Starling, House Finch, Northern Flicker, Black-billed Magpie, White-crowned Sparrow, Red-tailed Hawk, Canada Goose, Song Sparrow, Mallard, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Great Blue Heron, American Goldfinch, American Kestrel, Ring-billed Gull, Bluejay, Northern Shoveler, American Crow, Belted Kingfisher, Green-winged Teal, Bufflehead, Lesser Scaup, Common Merganser, Black-capped Chickadee, Great Horned Owl, and Dark-eyed Junco.

Other weekend sightings:

• Burrowing Owl - 1 (Weld CR 33) arrived last week
  
• Cooper's Hawk (Nunn Yard) Sun.
  
• Sandhill Crane - 5 (Wellington SWA) Sun.; 3 Sat. in Weld CR 48 marsh on north calling
  
• Gadwall and Greater Yellowlegs at "Nunn Pond" (Hwy 85/Weld CR 100 NW)
• American Avocet (Crom Lake) Sat.
  
• Franklin's Gull, Sora (Weld CR 48) Sat.
  

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn

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