Big Day (Bird Race)

8 February 1998

by Brandon K. Percival

Big Day Statistics:

• 87 species
• 0600 to 1700 hours
• 220 miles by car, 4 by foot
• Visiting: Burnt Mill Road, Colorado City, Rye, Lake Isabel, Beulah, Red Creek Road, Pueblo Res., Valco Ponds in Pueblo, Vineland, Huerfano Res
• Species of Note: Greater Scaup (Rare, Staked Out), Spotted Sandpiper (Rare in winter, Staked Out), Great Black-backed Gull (Vagrant, Staked Out), Greater Roadrunner (Rare), Pine Warbler (Vagrant, Staked Out)

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Prairie Falcon
Scaled Quail
American Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Common Snipe
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Horned Lark (Mark missed)
Steller's Jay
Blue Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
American Dipper
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shrike
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Canyon Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow

Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO
flammowl@juno.com