Wednesday, 1 May 2013

[cobirds] Roaring Fork Wednesday (Pitkin, Eagle, Garfield Ctys)

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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