Field Trip Report

Saturday March 30, 2002
Early Spring on the Pawnee

8:00 AM-2:30 PM
Leader: Phil Friedman

Twenty one people met at the Colorado Welcome Center on East Prospect (Fort Collins) at 8 AM. The weather was cool (40 F-then warmed to maybe 50 F) and partly sunny-no snow on the ground. A great early spring day. Trip basics were covered at the Welcome Center and then carpools formed for the 50 minute drive to Crow Valley campground near Briggsdale.

We spent the first couple of hours birding at Crow Valley campground and then, after lunch, moved to Murphy's Pasture out on the grasslands.  The feeders at the forest service work center were not present, so no bird were seen in this usually productive area.

Note: birds marked CV were seen at Crow Valley campground and MP were seen on the pasture or dirt roads on the forest service birding loop. Birds seen on the drive there or back are marked D.

Northern Harrier D
Red-tailed Hawk MP/D
Ferruginous Hawk (including one light morph) D/MP
Prairie Falcon (total 3 perhaps) D/MP
Horned Lark MP
Western Meadowlark CV/MP
Red-napped Sapsucker (2) CV
American Robin CV
American Goldfinch CV
Junco CV
Oregon
Slate-colored
Pink-sided (probably)
Gray-headed
Turkey Vulture CV
Downy Woodpecker CV
Rough-legged Hawk (dark morph) MP
Cedar Waxwing CV
House Sparrow CV
Golden Eagle (juvenile-2nd year bird) MP
American Kestrel D
Belted Kingfisher D
Undifferentiated gulls D

19 species

Submitted by
Phil Friedman