Re: [cobirds] Re: Mad dogs, Englishmen and NE CO yesterday

I had a group of eighteen out there, and we tramped right through the area referenced by David without seeing a single bird in that obnoxious vegetation that covers the upper beach.  Last year the plovers seemed to like hanging out in that stuff, and I assume that's where they are now.  Clearly they came in after we left around 4:00. 

 

Having missed the buff-bellieds, I now see that we also missed the curlew sandpiper.  Wonder if it might be the same bird found by Steve M. last year....can't say for sure that this bird wasn't there yesterday, because there were quite a few shorebirds on the west shore south of the corner that we could check out only at great distance.

 

Good luck to all chasers.  I might just get disgusted enough to go back out there myself.....

Norm Lewis

Lakewood, CO

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From: David Dowell <dave1wx@gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 1:20 pm
Subject: [cobirds] Re: Mad dogs, Englishmen and NE CO yesterday

Apparently some mysterious force drew a lot of us to Jackson Reservoir yesterday.  I stopped by there late afternoon to sunset.   Apparently, we now have some interesting documentation of how birds move around at Jackson.  It's also challenging to cover the whole area currently with the runoff and mud associated with the "enhanced wetland program".  (Currently, this is also an "enhanced mosquito program", and there are some happy mosquitoes after my visit.)  Hopefully the new wetlands will attract an even greater variety of birds.

I also missed out on the buff-breasted sandpipers, but the consolation prize was 16 mountain plovers on the "beach" near the SWA parking lot on the north side of the lake.  The plovers also congregated there in late August and early September last year.  Hopefully the plovers will hang around for a while again this year.  If the plovers aren't found on the "beach", they might be in the fields farther north.

David Dowell

Longmont, CO

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