Today was the first day of my annual two day trip for the Boulder Bird Club out the Platte to NE Colorado. It was a great day of birding with a day list of 102.
We started as a group of 18 on a specialty trip to Riverside Reservoir thanks to the gracious Skip Dines. Riverside has only cut off pools of water left, but there were still ample numbers of pelicans, cormorants, shorebirds, gulls and so forth. We started with a Peregrine—standard fare for reservoirs out there this year. Best birds, though were probably passerine migrants which seemed to come in right as the wind cut out at about 9:00 a.m. These included American Redstart, Townsend’s Warbler, Northern Waterthrush and Black and White Warbler.
On to Jackson by mid to late afternoon. We had no luck with Little Gull (or Curlew Sandpiper), but did get a single Buff-breasted Sandpiper, five Black-bellied Plovers (a total of 18 shorebird species) and another Northern Waterthrush .
Tomorrow, back to Sedgwick County.
Bill Kaempfer
Boulder
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