[cobirds] Today at Chatfield SP

I birded for a while with Glenn Walbek, but also on my own at Chatfield.

There was quite a spectacle in the snowstorm, with literally hundreds and hundreds of Vesper Sparrows, (total >1,000??)

plenty of American Pipits, Robins and fewer bluebirds, mostly Mountain. There was a score or more 

of just arrived Spotted Sandpipers, and on the Marina Sandspit a Semipalmated Plover and a lone Western

Sandpiper. I trekked in thru the willows at the Plum Creek Delta and saw only a little shoreline, as the lake

is high. There were 5 Wilson's Phalarpes, a Western Willet, Long-billed Dowitcher and a FOS Sanderling,

along with a score of Chipping Sparrows and a few Savannahs. Not much at the model airplane field.

Along the road past the ponds just southwest of Kingfisher Bridge were tons of icterids, including Yellow-headed

and Brewer's Blackbirds, Mountain Bluebirds, Robins, the same sparrows, pipits. Nothing rare, but as usual with spring storms,

there were lots of birds to see, but it was hard on those birds. The weather may break this evening, then clear after another

snowy night.

Joe Roller,

Denver

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