[cobirds] Summit County

While skiing the past several days, at Keystone and Copper Mtn, I regularly heard and occasionally saw Red Crossbills (RECR).  Anecdotally, this is the most RECR's that I have heard in the last seven years while skiing in Summit County.   Today, on North Peak of Keystone I saw my first flock of Rosy-Finches.   The flock was small, ~25 birds, and seemed to be all Brown-capped Rosy-Finches although I was not able to get good views of every individual.

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At the Blue River Water Treatment Plant in Silverthorne, there were 40+ Goldeneyes, all Barrow's (BAGO) as best I could determine.   The drakes in adult plumage were all Barrow's and all the females and juveniles seemed to be BAGO's but I will review my photos to see if I can pick out any Common Goldeneyes.   Two surprise birds were a female N. Shoveler and a Swamp Sparrow (pics of both).  My eBird report for the treatment plant is:

Blue River Water Treatment Plant, Summit, US-CO
Dec 14, 2013 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Protocol: Stationary
7 species

Gadwall  6
Mallard  20
Northern Shoveler  1     female; have photo
Green-winged Teal (American)  5
Ring-necked Duck  39
Barrow's Goldeneye  43     about 40% male, 60% female.  I have not checked my photos to see if there were any COGO's females\juveniles in the group.  Those I checked were all BAGO's
Swamp Sparrow  1     have photos; surprised to see as if I see a sparrow at this time of year, usually a SOSP

Charlie Nims

Bartlett, NH

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