Date: 9/6/26 1:31 pm From: Helen Butts <helenmbutts...> Subject: [cobirds] COBC report from Winging It in Fremont
COBC report from Winging It in Fremont
One of the reasons I joined CFO is because I truly love birding in
different habitats within this beautiful state of ours. Fremont county did
not disappoint. I was a solo crew –choosing to do the Bird-Your-Own-Way
category.
My morning started in the hills north of Cotopaxi pre-dawn with all of the
western mountain jays and hummers and both Dusky (singing) and Gray
(dipping) Flycatchers. I had a baker’s dozen of spots for the COBC, mostly
along the Arkansas River, and two spots that I did twice. Just north of
the Vallie Recreation site had a surprise of Evening Grosbeak finding shade
with a Red-naped Sapsucker and my only Western Tanager of the day.
By midday, the heat made my favorite warbler stop from 2025 in Swissdale
too hot for much of anything but the Rock Wrens representing Troglodytidae
for the day, but all in all, there were lots of great surprises like
Williamson’s Sapsucker and my final (and by then most wanted
species)–Juniper Titmouse.
I didn’t think I would come close to the par of 75 because I was in
Arkansas River valley (away from the hotspots near Canon City) –but I came
in spitting distance with 74 species. Of course, it’s birding, so I wasn’t
surprised to get 5 more species I couldn’t count early the next day,
including a gorgeous Northern Goshawk telling me to come on back to Fremont
before too long!
Thanks to all my donors and the anonymous donor for doubling the fun! You
can review my eBird trip report here: https://ebird.org/tripreport/567894
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