Spruce Meadows 5-6-17

87.5

Nebraska Tiger Beetle

Long's Peak

Red Shank Grasshopper

Brewer's Blackbird

Coyote den?

Cowbirds and cows

Spruce Mountain

Mountain Bluebird

Vesper Sparrow

Sand Lily

Sondermann Park 4-29-17

82

Cross Creek Park, Squirrel Creek, Cumberland Green, and Adams Open Space - Fountain Birding 4-21-17

79

Adams - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36146755

Cumberland Green - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36146543

Squirrel Creek Rd. Pond - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36146379

Cross Creek Park - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36146150

Small party this morning but weather cooperated until we finished for a beautiful morning of birding before the rain came back right as we finished with about 60 species.  Several first-of-season birds including Ibis, Avocet, Great-tailed Grackle, Swainson's Thrush, Yellow-rumped Warblers (both types and some hybrids too), Tree Swallows and Violet-Green Swallows, Lesser Yellowlegs,  Wilson's Snipe, Marsh Wren, Yellow-headed Blackbird and Savannah Sparrow.  House Wren was new for the year for some of our party I think, too.

Great-tailed Grackle and Yellow-headed Blackbird

Ruddy Duck

Western Meadowlark

Mallards

Great-horned Owl

A bit tricky to cross (other side is worse).

Cheyenne Mountain State Park 4-15-17

76.5

Wood Rat

Western Bluebird

Hairy Woodpecker

Pasque Flower

Adventurous Pygmy Nuthatch

Wild Turkeys

Western Bluebird (and Pygmy Nuthatch)

Turkey Vulture

Chipping Sparrow

Sherlock, Eminem and Bear quite excited to ride a Velociraptor

Apparently it is Bow Season for Giant Melancholy Orange Frogs....

It's more afraid of you than you are of it....

American Kestrel

Say's Phoebe

White-crowned Sparrow

Nuttal's Violet

Sand Lily

Eric sees some interesting insects in the flowers.

Cheyenne Mountain

Western Bluebird

Purple/Cowpath Tiger Beetle

Duskywing

Cheyenne Mountain

Wasp with Field Cricket prey

American Kestrel