Birders,
I went looking for the Connecticut Warbler today w/o any luck on it. There are some other birds to report however. I didn't get there until 9:10 am (my fault of course) and walked the inlet canal for several hours until there wasn't any action at all at about noon. The birds were few and far between.
I then went up to the dam and though I was pooped from the heat, it looked interesting enough to take a walk out into the desert that remains of the lakebed.
Inlet Canal:
Cassin's Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo (at least 2)
Warbling Vireo (at least 2 acting as if they are on territory)
Blackburnian Warbler (near the east end of the inlet)
Wilson's Warbler
Yellowthroat
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Downy Woodpecker
Hammond's Flyc (when I first got there near the tree laying across the inlet)
Great-crested Flyc (same place)
Western Wood-Pewee (1 was very yellow and even had a yellow chin but no yellow eye-ring and too big for Yellow-bellied Flyc)
Lincoln's Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lakebed:
I first scoped from above the parking lot by the dam and saw only what was big enough to be obvious:
Long-billed Curlew -2
Whimbrel - 1 (good size comparison w/Long-billed as they were near each other)
I could not see these when I was in the lakebed.
With those 2 making me think there could be something good in the masses of shorebirds too far out to ID from the dam, I took a walk from the parking area west of where I had scoped from:
Marbled Godwit - 2
BN Stilt
Avocet
Baird's ( lots and lots)
Western
Semi Sandpiper
Least
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper (lots)
Red-necked Phalarope
Wilson's Phalarope
There were many more shorebirds farther out but it was too hot and I was too pooped.
Ira Sanders
Golden, CO
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