Chico today , Sparrows and Buntings .

[John D]

CO birders :

 

    Some new arrivals today at Chico Basin Ranch ( fee area ) . In El Paso County at banding station 2 Hermit Thrushes , at a cholla grassland location , Northern Mockingbird , 5 Sage Thrashers , Curve-billed Thrasher , 2 Lark Buntings ( imm males ? , photographed ) , Vesper Sparrow , 10 Brewer's Sparrow ( singing /display flight ) , no Cassin's Sparrow yet.

 

 In Pueblo county , HQ had Yellow-headed Blackbird and Audubon's Warbler , at a prairie dog colony south of the May Camp turnoff , 6 Burrowing Owls but no Mountain Plover and more Brewer's Sparrows.

 

Just north of Hanover School ( back in El Paso County ) a pair of Swainson's Hawk were nest building alongside Peyton Highway.

 

Still good numbers of waterfowl on HQ Lake , Rose Pond and Upper Twin Ponds . 

 

John Drummond

Monument