Category Archives: Birds

Bird# 453 — Black Rail

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Roger

laterallus (from latus, side, flank, and rallus, rail) jamaicensis (Jamaica) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 9:00 pm County Roads 16 and HH — Fort Lyon, Colorado When I began birding 33 years ago, one of the requirements for adding a … Continue reading →

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Bird #452 — Lark Bunting

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Roger

calamospiza (from kalame, a stalk of grain, and spiza, finch) melanocorys (from melanos, black, and korus, lark, because it sings in flight) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 4:55 pm County Road 10 north of Las Animas, Colorado Lark Buntings are … Continue reading →

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County Road 10

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Roger

I had four hours from the time I left Bent’s Fort until it got dark. I decided my best chance to see new birds was to find a road that headed off into the short-grass prairie of eastern Colorado and … Continue reading →

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Bird #451 — Swainson’s Warbler

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Roger

limnothlypis (marsh finch) swainsonii (named after 19th-century English ornithologist William Swainson, by John James Audubon) Tuesday, April 24, 2012 — 7:40 pm Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia — Reids Station Road It was 7:30 and dusk was swiftly approaching. I’d … Continue reading →

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Bond Swamp

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Roger

The Swainson’s Warbler is a little brown bird that can usually only be seen in southern swamps between April and July. I’ve wandered the swamps of Arkansas and never seen a hint of one. They can occasionally be found in thickets … Continue reading →

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