Morning Birding at Rock Bottom Ranch Species List | September 3, 2019

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019, 7:30AM – 10:30AM
Weather: Sunny
Location: Rock Bottom Ranch & Rio Grande Trail

Species Identified

Canada Goose Mallard Wild Turkey Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Broad-tailed Hummingbird Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper’s Hawk Belted Kingfisher Lewis’s Woodpecker Northern Flicker Plumbeous Vireo Warbling Vireo Steller’s Jay Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing American Goldfinch Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Yellow Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler

 

Comments:

Today’s highlights included a spectacular show of kingfishers in several places at RBR, black-throated gray warblers on RBR property as well as along the Rio Grande Trail, and a couple of black bears climbing in the oak scrub whose presence was called out by alarming Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jays. The bears were presumably foraging on acorns, and the jays’ continuous calling brought our attention to the spot where the oak canopy was shaking vigorously, indicating the activity of large animals. The bears were one of our final ‘birds’ of the outing, seen from the parking lot and an exciting observation for all of us. The diversity of birdlife encountered today was a highlight in itself as well, and another interesting mammal sighting was a rock squirrel basking in the top of a chokecherry shrub. Join us next Tuesday at Hallam Lake!

~ Rebecca Weiss, ACES Bird Guide 

 

Photo by Dale Armstrong