SE Colorado Birding: Buffleheads and Hooded Mergansers back

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Buffleheads and Hooded Mergansers back

I checked out several ponds in the Canon City area. The pond at Sumo Golf Course in Florence produced 3 Hooded Hergansers, the first I've seen this season here.

A private pond in the area had the first Bufflehead, a flock of 7, of the season (I took this photo of the Bufflehead a few days ago in Kansas). I also saw a flock of 15 or so Lesser Scaup, a larger number than I am used to seeing. And I just read that both scaup species as well as Northern Pintail are only at 50% of the desired goals in the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
SeEtta

Why bird southeast Colorado?

From our high montane areas to the riparian areas along the Arkansas River as it exits Colorado, southeast Colorado offers birding opportunities for beginners to those serious birders who seek out the less common species. We have great shortgrass and sandsage prairie birding including public areas on the Comanche National Grasslands. We have wetlands including playa lakes (playas are important shallow, depressional wetlands that provide essential habitat for waterfowl and many other bird species). We have small lakes (such as Lake Cheraw north of La Junta)and large lakes (such as John Martin Reservoir that encompasses 35 square miles) that host an impressive diversity of bird species. And we have large expanses of pinyon-juniper woodlands with their special birding opportunities.

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Buffleheads and Hooded Mergansers back

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