Southbound Sandhills

[Kathy and Jeff Dunning]

Greetings -

This afternoon, just before 5pm, while working in my garden, I heard
the familiar call of Sandhill Cranes. I grabbed my binoculars and
managed to get a rough count of about 90 birds heading south above the
Colorado Blvd area in Denver before they flew out of sight.

I believe they may have been descending for the evening.

Good birding.

Kathy Mihm Dunning
Denver

[Brandon K. Percival]

I saw a small flock of six Sandhill Cranes this past Tuesday (1 October), flying over Wetmore, in Custer County.  Up at 9,050 feet in elevation in the Wet Mountains, in Custer County, yesterday (2 October), I saw three Blue Jays coming to a feeder (rare at this elevation).  Always a highlight was an adult Northern Saw-whet Owl this morning (3 October), in the dark, along Hwy 165 in Custer County, just south of where Ditch Creek Road turns off.  Some other things around 9,050 feet in elevation in the Wet Mountains, Custer County this week, were a Spotted Towhee, Lincoln's Sparrow, Pine Grosbeak, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Townsend's Solitaire, among others.  I ended with 60 species of birds on this private property in the Wet Mountains this summer and fall.  

 

Brandon Percival

Pueblo West, CO