I found myself in Cody Wyoming for a couple days, with no binoculars and no
real time to bird either other than for a spell each morning from my cousin's
30 acre "ranch", everything is a ranch there. And a little out the window of a
moving vehicle. Habitats included high desert mesa sage brush, mountain stream,
irrigated grassland, swamp/lake area, suburban haitat, no real forested area,
but a few cotton woods and Russian olive trees. They are having a very wet
year. At 5,000 feet the rain storms drag the ground. Highlight was young,
partly feathered, Virginia Rails crossing the gravel road from swamp to swamp
during the early morning hours, young cranes, and a bank swallow colony out
their back door.
No new birds for me, and I was surprised by the percentage of eastern birds.
Scott Marsh
Lexington
canada goose
mallard
gadwall
blue-winged teal
cinnamon teal
lesser scaup
pheasant
white pelican
virginia rail
red=tailed hawk
sandhill crane
avocet
spotted sandpiper
long-billed curlew
wilson's phalarope
killdeer
ring-billed gull
mourning dove
eurasian collared-dove
great-horned owl
common nighthawk
western wood-pewee
say's phoebe
western kingbird
eastern kingbird
warbling vireo
magpie
raven
american crow
cliff swallow
barn swallow
tree swallow
bank swallow
rough-winged swallow
marsh wren
house wren
robin
starling
yellow warbler (very common)
common yellowthroat
green-tailed towhee
brewer's sparrow
savannah sparrow
vesper sparrow
grasshopper sparrow
lincoln's sparrow
song sparrow
brewer's blackbird
grackle
red-winged blackbird
yellow-headed blackbird
brown-headed cowbird
western meadowlark
bullock's oriole
house finch
goldfinch
house sparrow
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