Birding Pueblo Valco Ponds area 10-27-05

After I got out of a meeting in Pueblo this afternoon, I did a little birding a very good spot near the Pueblo Valco Ponds area west of the parking lot. This area is a migrant trap though I didn't find any rarities this afternoon. In a big cottonwood tree above the Arkansas River was an Osprey that hasn't migrated south yet. On one of the fishery ponds I saw the following: several Gadwall,several American Wigeon, a few teal species, more than a dozen Bufflehead, several Mallards and 1 female Hooded Merganser. There were a number of White-crowned and Song Sparrows in the rabbitbrush and good areas of other shrubs. There was also a nice small flock of 8-10 Bushtits.