Last night I went to Bear Creek Lake Park around 5:00 P.M. and observed a mini-fallout along the edge of Big Soda Lake. Rob Raker, Michael Kiessig, and I returned this morning and added a couple of new species to last night's list. We walked from the Swim Beach east along the edge of the lake to the power lines and private property (half mile) and had birds everywhere along the edge of Big Soda Lake.
Highlights included a lone singing Eastern Phoebe, a pair of Marsh Wrens, a lone Bank Swallow(FOS) and several VG's among the numerous Tree and Barn Swallows, a number of Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 8-10 Hermit Thrushes, 2 Sage Thrashers, 5 FOS Orange -crowned Warblers, several Lincoln Sparrows, along with 15+ Say's Phoebes, 50+ Yellow-rumped Warblers (60/40 ratio of Myrtle's to Audubon's), 75+ Bluebirds (2-1 ratio of Western to Mountain), and 100+ Robins. This is just a partial list and doesn't include the winter sparrows and resident breeders we observed. The Common Grackles and Brewer's Sparrows have also returned to BCLP.
We then drove to Pelican Point where we saw a Broad-winged Hawk on the Turkey Creek side. Last night while driving on the North Road I saw a Loggerhead Shrike and a Wild Turkey (hen). A Burrowing Owl has also been seen this week on the road to the dam above Mountain View.
That's it from BCLP,
Mike Henwood
Morrison
Jefferson County
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