Hi all,
After pouring rain pounded the roof most of the night, the noise abated ... and we awoke to several inches of snow, freezing temperatures but mercifully no wind.
In the yard today:
Lincoln’s Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow several
Bullock’s Oriole male
Cassin’s Finch several
Gray-headed Junco
Yellow-headed Blackbird several
Black-chinned Hummingbird 1+males
Pine Siskin 2 (FOY)
Linda, Mary, Shep, Jennifer and I birded Spring Park reservoir, El Jebel.. Finally we have hundreds of Swallows, a mini fallout of shorebirds, and a decent fallout of American Pipits and Mountain Bluebirds
Common Loon 3 alternate plumage
Barrow’s Goldeneye 2+
Common Merganser 2 females
Long-billed Dowitcher 17 + 3
Willet 10
Western Sandpiper 4
Wilson’s Phalarope 2
Wilson’s Snipe heard
Killdeer several
Franklin’s Gull 1
Great Horned Owl
Peregrine
Brewer’s Blackbirds 20+
American Pipit 100+
Mountain Bluebird 100+
Tree Swallow – hundreds – this evening they were roosting on the stones on the islands near the dam
and also this evening, new in..
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Blue Lake El Jebel was back to old form – with a nice selection of common birds including
Pied billed Grebe 1
Eared Grebe ca 50 – some were very obliging for the patient photographer
Western Grebe 8
Bufflehead several
Ring necked Duck 2
Lesser Scaup several
Coot
Mallard
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler 30+
Cinnamon Teal
Green Winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Ruddy Duck
Canada Geese
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Savannah Sparrow 2+
American Pipit 2
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Apart from a fallout of Western Grebes in mid April, Blue Lake has been almost devoid of any birds all spring – until today.
Nearby, on the treatment ponds by JR Drive, close to the El Jebel Fire Station
Wilson’s Phalarope 4 -
first time I have ever seen anything other than Canada Geese or Mallard on there!
Up-valley I was forwarded a photograph of a Lazuli Bunting at Woody Creek and I was told that there were scores of Vesper Sparrows on Maclean Flats, near Aspen
Good birding all
Dick Filby
Carbondale, CO
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