Nov. 5: to Denver In morning along Platte River bottom toward Julesburg, Nebraska; very little snow, in scattered, sheltered places. Prairie rolling, save for bottom-living? willows and cottonwoods. Saw 5 Magpies; 18 geese; and two Ducks, the latter on running shallow stream. Down into Colorado; more snow, sun continues, this only 2 or 3 inches deep. Saw many Horned Larks, at least 4 Meadowlarks, 12+ Magpies, 1 Pheasant, numerous English Sparrows in towns. Beets appear to be the main crop, raised on bottomlands; open rolling prairie, un cultivated; vast stretches seem uninhabited. The day nearly clear, I judge by the thick ice on standing water, plenty cold. Pencil census from Sterling, Colo., to Fort Morgan (4276 ft./alt.), 9:35 to 10:35. - English Sparrows (7, in a town); Ring-necked Pheasant (1, at edge of corn-field); Magpie 13, flying, singles mostly); Meadowlark 41, in 5 groups flushed from weedy fields); unknown small birds, 51+; Prairie Falcon (1 ? in flight close to train, evidently just left telegraph pole); Ferruginous Rough-leg (3 separate ones; one flying, one perched on fence-post, one perched on dilapidated windmill), Mourning Dove (8+, flushed by train from weedy fields, singly and in pairs).