[cobirds] Grebes! Jim Baker Reservoir and Surrounding Area, Adams County, April 28

Cobirders,

I birded several locations near Jim Baker Reservoir (60th and Tennyson) on April 28th. There are several neighborhood lakes and ponds in the area that are usually productive with courting and/or nesting water birds. Highlights were:

Jim Baker Reservoir - over a hundred Western Grebes and 50+ Common and Red-breasted Mergansers, 5 American White Pelicans. The nameless ponds south of Jim Baker on Tennyson had a few Bufflehead, Gadwalls and Ring-necked Ducks.

Lake Sangraco, east of Lowell and Jim Baker – Dozens of Great Blue Herons, Black-crowned Night Herons, Snowy Egrets and Double-crested Cormorants on the nest on the island, 3 American White Pelicans.

Lowell Ponds, south of Jim Baker on Lowell – 2 American Avocet and 2 Wilson's Phalaropes

This beautiful day, Berkeley Lake and Prospect Park pond were long on people and, unfortunately, short on birds.

Rocky Mountain Lake Park, 46^th and Lowell, was a bonanza – 25 Ruddy Ducks, 20 Eared Grebes, 15 Bonaparte's Gulls, 11 Lesser Scaups, 4 Pied-billed, a few Western Grebes, 2 Cinnamon Teal and one Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler.

Marilyn Rhodes

Evergreen, CO