Folks,
I started this morning at a very birdy Cherry Creek state park. The trees at the Smoky Hills picnic area were filled with birds, mostly warblers. There were 25+ Townsend's Warblers and about that many Yellow-rumped, half or so as many Wilson's and 1 Orange-crowned Warbler. Last week I saw several Red-breasted Nuthatches a Mountain Chickadee and 2 Nashville Warblers in these trees. The lake held gulls and grebes and 6 Red-necked Phalaropes. Along the south shore I saw a Swainson's Thrush (unusual for Cherry Creek) and 2 cooperative Sabine's Gulls. I met up with Loch at Chatfield and we found the Snowy Plover on the Plum Creek Delta along with a Semipalmated Plover and a Pectoral Sandpiper. Landbirds at Chatfield were few and far between but there was a male Red-naped Sapsucker near the cove at the SE shore. Pics of some of these birds can be viewed from the links below.
Glenn Walbek
Castle Rock, CO
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