Wyoming First

["Tim Avery" <tanager at timaverybirding dot com>]

I spent this weekend with many Wyoming Birders, and several RMBO 
employees looking for Flammulated Owl and Purple Martin in Wyoming.  In 
2002 Katie Brashear working for RMBO located several calling Flammulated 
Owls in the Sierra Madre range in southeast Wyoming.  At this time the 
bird had only historical records in Wyoming, mostly during migration.  
It was not know to breed in the state.  Last year Doug Faulkner and Rich 
Levad found a colony of 2 pairs of nesting Purple Martin's in the same 
area as the owls.  The first nesting record in Wyoming in over 70 years. 
 This year Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon and RMBO decided to put on a 
weekend to search for both these birds, and see if a nesting Flammy 
could be located.  Here is the story and some pictures:

http://www.timaverybirding.com/flammy.html

Good Birding

Tim
http://www.timaverybirding.com
Salt Lake City, UT or Wherever the Birds Take Me!
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