Field Trip Report

Sunday April 29, 2001
Larimer and Weld County Birding Hot Spots

Leader: Nick Komar

A total of 10 people from Larimer and Weld Counties joined our field trip beginning at 7 am. Hot spots visited were Cottonwood Hollow Natural Area and Strauss Cabin Lake in Fort Collins; Timnath Reservoir; Gress Reservoir and Woods Lake near Severance (Weld County); Weld CR51 north of Galeton to CO 14; Crow Valley Campground and Murphy's Pasture (Pawnee National Grassland); and Lower Latham Reservoir and Beebe Draw south of Greeley (Weld County). 

The highlights were re-finding the 2 Glossy Ibis and Caspian Tern reported previously in Fort Collins, and finding a Nashville Warbler at Crow Valley. A total of 101 species were observed, and just about everyone on the trip had at least one life bird! Species list follows:

Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
White-faced Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
Sora
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Mountain Plover
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Baird's Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
Say's Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Blue Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Horned Lark
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Rock Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (both Audubon's and Myrtle forms)
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
McCown's Longspur
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow