SE Colorado Birding

Birding and discussion: A conservation-oriented birding blog that emphasizes low-impact birding and sustainable birding practices together with the enjoyment of birds. Southeast Colorado offers a diversity of habitats which provide premiere birding opportunities.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Red-headed Woodpecker in flight

This morning 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers were engaged in loud interactions as they chased between large cottonwood snags intersperced by bouts of drumming on the dead wood. I got these these photos as they chased around. Be sure to double-click on them for enlargement.
SeEtta

Labels: Lamar Woods, Red-headed Woodpecker

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Lamar Woods & Red-headed Woodpeckers

I started birding at 6:30 am this morning at Lamar Woods, the premier migrant trap located behind Lamar Jr. College. One of the first birds I saw, and heard, this morning was the Red-headed Woodpecker in this pic. The pic is best seen by double-clicking it to enlarge it. It vocalized loudly and interacted with another Red-headed Woodpecker indicating a possible breeding pair. More on these Red-heads later.
SeEtta

Labels: Lamar Woods, Red-headed Woodpecker

Save trees in the Boreal forest for birds, not for paper--Opt out of catalogues

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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Links
- Google News
- National Audubon Society
- Audubon Colorado
- Playa Lakes Joint Venture
- Partners in Flight
- FatBirder-Colo
- Avian Science
- Lamar, CO-Blue Spruce Motel-http://www.bluesprucelamar.com/ -next to Lamar Woods behind Lamar Jr. College (birding hotspot) & pet friendly -this is where I stay in Lamar
- Good food in Las Animas
- Carmen's Steaks & Mexican Cuisine--625 Carson Avenue-719.456.0577-great mexican & American food & they were smoke-free before the law required it