CFO’s Quarterly Field Trip today to North Metro welcomed 24 birders for a 55 species trip. We started at the Firestone Recreation (Milavec) Lake on Colorado Blvd. to huge flocks of white-faced geese and Redwing Blackbirds before continuing north to the St. Vrain Rivers (yes, still plural) area east of I-25 were we had common sparrows and good duck variety plus a lingering Double-crested Cormorant. Next was Union Reservoir were the continuing Long-tailed Duck came within a few dozen yards of the shore in front of us.
We ventured down to Panama Reservoir were we had decent looks at the Red-necked Grebe that Ted Floyd found on his trip yesterday. The Snow Geese that he probably saw yesterday at Little Gaynor were this morning at the corner of Oxford Rd. and US 287. Then we went north to Ish Reservoir for a few Bonaparte’s Gulls and Killdeer before finding the peace and quiet of Weld County Roads 3 and 5 NE of Berthoud. Here, Twin Mounds Res. had lots of ducks and three Tundra Swans.
We went back south to Longmont, but McIntosh goodies were too far to expose themselves to us, so we continued on to Lagerman. There we had three more Bonaparte’s Gulls, a soaring Ferruginous Hawk, a single Sandhill Crane looking for company and finally the Greater White-fronted Goose already reported by Peter Gent.
Join us for our next CFO Quarterly Trip in Winter—check the Winter issue of Colorado Birds for details.
Bill Kaempfer
President
CFO
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