I spotted a rufous morph (Western) Red-tailed Hawk this morning in Canon City and I have uploaded a photo of it on my
Birds and Nature blog. I also have several photos of a Yellow-rumped Warbler that perched on a barbed wire fence with some Mountain Bluebirds (photos of them too).
I birded Sands Lake in Salida before a meeting in that town on Friday and as is usually the case in the fall and winter there were a good number of common species of waterfowl. Conspicuously absent were the ever present Great-tailed Grackles that have been resident on a small island in this lake for some years.
SeEtta Moss
Canon City