Fifteen bird enthusiasts participated in this year’s Fort Morgan/Weldona Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on Dec. 19, 2019. They came to count bird species and numbers of individual birds within species.
This was 79th year of this annual event in Morgan County. Six teams of birders worked outdoors, driving and walking, to cover the fields, streams and woodlands within the 15-mile diameter count circle, according to
The first bird count was done here in 1922. Counts were made in some years of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s. However, the actual count circle area was first designated in 1960 and the counts have been nearly continuous since then.
Cathy and Bruce Bosley of Brush were local, while the other field birders came from Front Range communities. This count also included reporting from four local feeder watchers: Don Ostwald, Gary and Corliss Littlefield and Larry Porter.
Weather ranged from cloudy to partly cloudy with light breezes and seasonal temperatures ranging from 15 degrees in the morning to 49 degrees in the afternoon.
These birders counted 71 species and eight additional bird races on the Count day. The birders tallied 20,500 total birds of all species.
High species counts were recorded for: greater white-fronted geese, hooded mergansers, wild turkeys, merlins, blue jays and Townsend’s solitaire.
The most significant find for this count was a single Goss hawk, which has only been seen six years before in the count’s 79 years of records.
The following lists this year’s Christmas Bird Count species: greater white-fronted goose, snow goose, Ross’s goose, Canada goose, cackling goose, northern shoveler, American wigeon, mallard, northern pintail, ring-necked duck, common goldeneye, hooded merganser, common merganser, northern bobwhite, ring-necked pheasant, wild turkey, rock pigeon, Eurasian-collared dove, white-winged dove, mourning dove, Virginia rail, killdeer, ring-billed gull, great blue heron, bald eagle, northern harrier, sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper’s hawk, Northern Goshawk, red-tailed hawk, Harlan’s red-tailed hawk, ferruginous hawk, rough-legged hawk, golden eagle, eastern screech owl, great horned owl, long-eared owl, belted kingfisher, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, northern flicker, American kestrel, merlin, prairie falcon, northern shrike, blue jay, black-billed magpie, American crow, horned lark, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper, marsh wren, eastern bluebird, Townsend’s solitaire, American robin, starling, cedar waxwing, house sparrow, house finch, pine siskin, American goldfinch, Lapland longspur, American tree sparrow, song sparrow, white crowned sparrow, dark-eyed junco races (Oregon, pink-sided, slate-colored, grey-headed), northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, western meadowlark, Brewer’s blackbird and great-tailed grackle.
“I really appreciate all the cooperating landowners who gave permission to bird in their properties,” Bruce Bosley said. “This really allowed our field teams to seek and find all the species and get their best number counts for this census of the birds present. Of course, I especially appreciate the birders and feeder watchers who participated in this year’s Christmas Bird Count. Many have participated for several previous years.”
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