SE Colorado Birding: Two Buttes

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Two Buttes

I stopped on my trip on the road to Two Buttes. This area is also still covered with 1-2 feet of snow and the gravel county road has a lot of ice from snow melting then freezing. Usually I would have seen or heard several flocks of Horned Larks feeding or flying around this prairie area and most often seen a hawk and frequently a corvid. Today I neither saw nor heard any birds along here.

The heavy snow cover makes it very hard for birds and other wildlife to find food.

More from Lamar tomorrow.

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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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Two Buttes

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