Thanks to Dennis for another good post. This is also an opportunity
to remind all of us that trips like his are good sources of info for the
Breeding Bird Atlas. You do not have to be the official owner of the
block in question, or any block, to contribute to the atlas. I think
you just need to register at the atlas website at
http://bird.atlasing.org/Atlas/CO/Main . It is not considered
poaching to add a few cool birds to someone else's block.
We finally went up to my Spruce Mountain block, which sounds like
one of the places Dennis was just at, today. As usual, the pure aspens
in our area are just about the best birding you can find anywhere. We
had a new Purple Martin location, but, like Dennis said, there were a
few old martin sites with few or no martins. We also heard Willow
flycatchers in two blocks, and had Red tailed and Swainson's hawks,
Wilson's and Mac warblers, and huge numbers of Robins, Yellow warblers,
VG swallows and House wrens. As always, anyone is welcome to add
Swainson's thrush or Fox sparrow-two of today's targets- to my block.
BD
