San Luis Valley Fallout of Sorts

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We got heavy rains last night and it stopped about 8:00 am. Figured the birds might have been tight in cover so spent a few hours out and about around Alamosa and Monte Vista. Once it warmed up, the birds started to move and things picked up. Here's what was out and about today.

Alamosa:

Many YR Warblers, both Myrtle and Audubons

Empids..(could not get on them well enough)

Least Sandpiper

Semi-palmated Plovers

Lark Bunting

Bullock's Oriole

Sharp-shinned Hawk

In Monte Vista at Veterans Center and Home Lake

Yellow-rumped Warblers

OC Warblers

Osprey

Marbled Godwits

Long-billed Dowitcher

Forsters Tern

And Mary Thompsons place is really hopping. In Monte Vista, She is at 1E and 1S junction south of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and she invites birders to stop by and see her colorful assortment of birds. She has:

Lazuli Bunting

Brown Thrasher

American and Lesser Goldfinch

Bullocks Oriole

Lark Bunting

John Rawinski

Monte Vista, CO