SE Colorado Birding: Recent Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Lamar

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Recent Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Lamar

Dave Leatherman, a highly skilled Colorado birder and entomologist (so he knows a lot about the insects that birds eat) gratiously donated this photo he took of an adult female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker so it could easily be compared with my photos of the Red-naped Sapsucker (and have placed this photo at the bottom so the pics will be next to each other).

Dave birds the Lamar area not infrequently and found this bird at the south end of Willow Creek Park in Lamar. Willow Creek Park is a birding hotspot in that far southeastern town.

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, December 13, 2006

Recent Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Lamar

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