Birding

Birding was good in Steamboat. We didn’t get the sage grouse or the juniper titmouse, but we did get to list about fifty birds.

Birding in Leadville was not as productive, but we were only there for two nights, and got twenty-five.

Durango. We got a lead off the internet, drove south on highway 550, west on highway 160, south on county road 141, and southeast on county road 136, an unpaved road on the indian reservation. Three miles in, we found the Cassins’s Kingbird. Not an unusual bird…., if you’re in Arizona or New Mexico in the summer. We got to see him without getting that hot. A new bird for us. Cassin’s Kingbird.

Tomorrow…. The can’t miss, slam dunk, Grace’s Warbler near a campground west of Durango. Again, not an unusual bird….., if you’re in Arizona in the summer.