Colorado still has about a dozen BBS routes that need observers. Our roster has 137 routes -- more than any other states except Calif & TX. We encourage you to pick up one if you have the requisite skills-- especially the ability to ID birds along the route BY SOUND. (On my routes, I'd say I ID 80% by sound, and see few of them.
Here's the list; contact me if interested.
“I especially
enjoyed the first few pre-dawn stops along the wetlands area of Poncha
Creek—the dawn chorus there was often a tad overwhelming. An experience I
will never forget.” – Tina Mitchell
ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS
Southeast
17028 Two Buttes Prowers & Baca p
103
Start at intersection of CR 26 & CR
D; east on CR D 9 miles; S on Colo 89 to end.
17328 Pritchett Baca p 101
Start 12 miles S of Pritchett on CR 12;
go E one mile, then N on Roads 13 and 12 to end.
17027 Gilpin Bent p 101
Starts 7 miles south of Las Animas. East
on Rd BB 3 miles; S on CR16 9 miles; W on CR T 3 miles; S on Colo 101 2 miles, W
1 mile on CR P, S on CR 11 to end, just north of Setchfield WMA.
17327 Timpas Otero p
100
Starts 15 miles west of LaJunta. From
Colo. 10, go south on GR 14 for 9 miles, east on GR 11 5.5 miles to Timpas,
south 2 miles, east one mile, then south on GR 18 to end.
17050 Crowley Crowley p 96
Starts in Olney Springs; NE on Canal
Road to CR 8, then north 5 miles; jog west to CR 7, then north 10 miles, jog
east, then north on CR 8 to end.
17220 Haswell Bent, Kiowa p 99
Start 6 miles N of Las Animas; N 7 miles
on CR 10; swing around SE edge of Adobe Cr Res. SWA, then N 4 miles on Road 17;
E on Road E 2 miles; N 5 miles on Road 19, E 1 mile on Road K, then N on Road
20 to end.
17321 Sheridan Lake
Prowers, Kiowa p 103
Start on Prowers Co. Rd 30 at Rd VV;
north on VV to Kiowa CR W; then east on W to end.
South Central
17056 Trinchera Las Animas p. 102,
93
Start in Trinchera; westerly on CR 2.2
and 22.0 & 24.6 roads to end.
17226 Cokedale Las Animas p 93
Starts
20 miles west of Trinidad, a mile south of Trinidad Lake; Go westerly on CF
53.1 and 18.3; northwesterly on CR 53.5 through Spanish Peaks WA and 41.1; then
northeasterly on CF 41.7 & 42; then NWly on CR 46 to end.
17375 Gardner Huerfano P
82
Start at intersection of FR 400 &
404 (20+ miles west of Beulah and 10 miles SW of Bishops Castle); south on FR
400 to Gardner, west on CR 550 to Malachite; S on CR 572 to end.
East Central
17020 Boyero Lincoln p
99
Start 25 miles S of Boyero, 1.5 miles
east of CR 44 on CR J; west 1.5 miles then N on CR 44 to end, near Boyero.
17013 Last Chance Washington, Arapahoe p
96
Start north of Last Chance 9 miles and
west 3 miles, at intersection of CR20 & CR D/ West on CR 20 (88th
Ave.), 67N, & 96th; North on CR 69, west on 136th
Ave. to end.
Central Mountains
17351 Angora Rio Blanco p
22-23
Start 8 miles NE of Rangely; Start on CR
61 or 65 at Holandrus Res.; south on 61/65 to Colo 64 east on Colo 64 two
miles; south and east on CR 122 to end.
Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO