Congrats to Mark and Dan on their success! Mark's Big Days are always a hoot, so to speak, especially around midnight
David Dowell and I were not attempting any sort of big day, but by birding from Fort Morgan to Jackson Res, to areas around Greeley we totaled a joy-inspiring 123 species (+ 2 hybrids and a few subspecies :o)
Near Ft Morgan at Narrows Dam Site
2 singing NORTHERN CARDINALS
many N Bobwhite, 2 Long-eared Owls, and very very few migrants
At Jackson State Park and Reservoir
~3000 Northern Shoveler and 600 Ruddy Ducks
GRAY-HEADED JUNCO (rare on Plains)
EASTERN PHOEBE
HARRIS'S SPARROW (motley sucker molting from imm to adult plumage)
At Andrick Ponds SWA
10 SNOW GEESE
At Various Locations from WCR 59 ponds through Lower Latham and to LaSalle:
WHIMBREL at Loloff (Thank You Glenn W)
nearly 100 LB Dowitchers (no SB Dows, alas)
About 50 BN Stilts
About 200 peeps, with Least predominating, but plenty o' Baird's, Western, and Semis
About 20 Willets (someone must have listened to you Glenn, 'cause none got flagged)
A Stilt Sandpiper (oddly in basic plumage
A DUNLIN (breeding plumage, private property)
A BW x CINNAMON TEAL
A WESTERN x CLARK's GREBE
and some stuff I am likely forgetting
There is a development across from Kodak SWA that has a pond that was full of feeding pelicans and cormorants, visible from the highway. In that pond were >100 Bonaparte's Gulls (but, alas, no Little Gulls)
Yet another MUTE SWAN was in a park pond on e. edge of Milliken
Windsor Lake was DEAD-- have no idea why.
Windsor Reservoir had a first year LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a 2nd year THAYER'S GULL
Woods Lake had a couple hundred lingering LESSER CANADA GEESE but no Cacklers. It also had a first year THAYER'S GULL
Angel Lake had many birds, but nada unusual.
Good Birding
Steven Mlodinow
Longmont CO
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