Best bird(s):

• Great Horned Owl sitting on a nest

Complete List:

• American Wigeon – 8
• Red-tailed Hawk – 2 overhead pair bonding with arial displays
• American Kestrel – 2
• Killdeer – 2
• Ring-billed Gull – 1
• Great Horned Owl – 1 sitting on a nest
• Loggerhead Shrike – 2, doing its buzzy courtship call
• Chihuahuan Raven – 1
• Bewick’s Wren – 1
• Curve-billed Thrasher – 1 engaged in its courtship call
• European Starling – 12 with 2 sitting on the back of a cow
• Vesper Sparrow – 2
• Lark Bunting – 35 to 40
• Savannah Sparrow – 3
• Eastern Meadowlark – 3
• Western Meadowlark – 4. There were more meadowlarks than these 7 listed, but only these vocalized.
• Brewer’s Blackbird – 5
• Brown-headed Cowbird – 1

Sightings by LgPacker and Heidi Trudell at the wind farm