mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser) (05/18/88)
I just returned from a two week vacation in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Here is my list of birds seen. Common Grackle Blue Winged Teal American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs American Kestrel Belted Kingfisher Canada Goose Red Winged Blackbird Western Grebe Lesser Scaup Mallard Great Blue Heron Common Merganser Gadwall Ring Necked Duck Green Winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Flicker American Coot Black Billed Magpie Killdeer Black Capped Chickadee Yellow Headed Blackbird Lesser Yellowlegs Barn Swallow Cinnamon Teal House Sparrow House Finch Swainson's Hawk American White Pelican Clark's Grebe Ring Billed Gull American Wigeon Mourning Dove American Crow Golden Eagle Double Crested Cormorant Northern Pintail Northern Harrier Wilson's Phalarope Cliff Swallow Western Meadowlark Willet Common Raven Bufflehead Horned Grebe Baird's Sandpiper Peregrine Falcon American Robin Eastern Screech Owl (Maxwelliae) Black Crowned Night Heron Tree Swallow Pine Siskin Vesper Sparrow Eastern Kingbird Yellow Rumped Warbler (Audubon's) White Crowned Sparrow Yellow Rumped Warbler (Myrtle's) Rufous Sided Towhee (Western) House Wren (Western) Green Tailed Towhee Rock Wren Ring Necked Pheasant Downy Woodpecker Orange Crowned Warbler (Lutescens) Lazuli Bunting Red Tailed Hawk Western Tanager Blue Jay Turkey Vulture Northern Rough Winged Swallow Chipping Sparrow Bank Swallow White Throated Swift Canyon Wren Sharp Shinned Hawk Osprey Brewer's Blackbird Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Long Billed Dowitcher Black Necked Stilt Lewis' Woodpecker Horned Lark Western Kingbird Lark Bunting Brown Thrasher Loggerhead Shrike Say's Phoebe McCown's Longspur Chestnut Collared Longspur Mountain Plover Ferruginous Hawk Savannah Sparrow (Nevadensis) Violet Green Swallow Western Flycatcher Hairy Woodpecker Virginia's Warbler Green Backed Heron Mountain Bluebird Mountain Chickadee (Rockies) Ruby Crowned Kinglet Pygmy Nuthatch Steller's Jay (Macrolopha) Dark Eyed Junco (Slate) American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak Yellow Warbler McGillivray's Warbler Northern Oriole (Bullock's) California Gull Northern Oriole (Baltimore) Canvasback Franklin's Gull Water Pipit Prairie Falcon European Starling Lesser Goldfinch (Black-backed) Broad Tailed Hummingbird Lesser Goldfinch (Green-backed) Scrub Jay Brown Headed Cowbird Burrowing Owl Grasshopper Sparrow (Perpallidus) Lark Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow (Pratensis) Upland Sandpiper Song Sparrow Common Yellowthroat Clay Colored Sparrow Red Breasted Nuthatch Black Tern Orchard Oriole Hermit Thrush Wilson's Warbler Rose Breasted Grosbeak White Breasted Nuthatch Veery Williamson's Sapsucker Hammond's Flycatcher Solitary Vireo (Rockies) It seemed that the warbler migration was a little bit slow. The weather was pretty nice; maybe that had something to do with it. Anybody seen any good warbler numbers yet? Looking and listing, Mike