May 2-5 Colorado Field Ornithologists Annual Convention - Lamar, CO
We enjoyed 4 full days of birding areas of the eastern plains and all over the Lamar area in southeast Colorado. I added at least 31 new birds to my life list, met many great people, and learned a lot!
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Mountain Plover
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Brown-headed Cowbird (female)
Canyon Towhee posing
Canyon Towhee
Lark Sparrow
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Blue Grosbeak
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (male)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (female)
Eastern Phoebe
Summer Tanager (male) eating a wasp!
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager
Possible Lazuli/Indigo Bunting hybrid!
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male)
Louisiana Waterthrush (originally thought to be Northern Waterthrush)
Turkey Vulture looking a bit tattered
Rock Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Western Kingbird
Black-necked Stilt
Vermillion Flycatcher (male)
Mississippi Kite
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (female), House Finch, and Bullock's Oriole
Black-headed Grosbeak (male)
Northern Cardinal
Brown Thrasher
Great Horned Owl
Greater Roadrunner
Meep Meep!
Mississippi Kite
Cooper's Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Great-crested Flycatcher (male)
Black-chinned Hummingbird (male)
Baltimore Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Cliff Swallow nests
We saw other wildlife too, including- Jack Rabbit
Bull Snake
I think this is a racerunner lizard
Some kind of wasp!
We're being watched!
We got to bird on a ranch that raises Shire drafthorses!
Beautiful iris flowers in the Higbee cemetery
Yucca
Cholla
Headed down Higbee Rd.
An old wind mill