Pueblo birds 9/14 (Laughing Gull/Dickcissel)

[Brandon K. Percival]

I stopped by Sailboard launching area at Pueblo Reservoir (Pueblo County) early this morning, there was an adult basic plumage Laughing Gull standing were California Gulls.  Below the dam, I saw a Dickcissel near the Snakeskin Picnic Area parking lot and a Cassin's Vireo and two Eastern Phoebes between the Fish Hatchery Ponds and Valco Ponds parking lot.  Seen with Mark and Barb Yaeger, was an Olive-sided Flycatcher, a few hundred yards west of the Valco Ponds parking lot, in the area, where a Canada Warbler was briefly seen last Saturday, though not re-found unfortunately.  Also this morning, below Pueblo Reservoir dam, I saw my first for the fall on the plains, White-crowned Sparrow (adult) and Ruby-crowned Kinglet.

 

Brandon Percival

Pueblo West, CO