[cobirds] RFI- SW Colorado

Hi Colorado birders,

I’m a young birder from Dallas, TX, and I’ll be vacationing with my family in SW Colorado the last two weeks in June.  I’ll be staying in Mancos and taking day trips, possibly a few overnight trips as well.  I’ve been birding in Colorado before, but there are a few SW species that have evaded me that I would really like to see this time around.  The list includes:

 

Northern Goshawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Ring-necked Pheasant

Gunnison Sage-Grouse

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Virginia Rail

Owls (except Great Horned)

Common Poorwill

Lewis's Woodpecker

Williamson's Sapsucker

Sage Sparrow

Black-chinned Sparrow

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch

Bobolink

Evening Grosbeak

Pine Grosbeak

Any info you guys could give on locations to find these birds would be very helpful!  I’ve been browsing CFO’s county birding site but I would appreciate real-time data as well.  I know a lot of these birds are hard to find though J

 

We’ll drive up through the TX panhandle, cut the corner of NM, and enter Colorado at Raton Pass then drive through the southern part of the state- so if some of my targets are in the eastern part of the state I might be able to stop and get them if they are near the main highway.

 

Thanks for whatever you can tell me, and good birding!

 

Caleb Frome

TX Century Club Youth Member

Dallas, TX