[cobirds] Re: "Wait, there is more to the story about Latham Reservoir Welcoming Committee"/Weld

Hi all

I contacted Weld Sheriff via email and shared our experiences--reaching out to them for potential solutions.  I did not mention names to "protect the innocent" ... :-) ... I'll let you know how Sheriff responds.

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
Mobile:  http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m

On Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:49:17 AM UTC-6, The "Nunn Guy" wrote:

I led Boulder County Audubon trip around Weld County yesterday.  Total of 64 species seen.  Highlights are:

Long-billed Curlew (On east side fo reservoir, near top of hill where everyone looks to reservoir, bird was along oil industry dirt road in field)
McCown's, Chestnet-collared Longspurs, Loggerhead Shrike, Sage Thrasher, Lark Bunting at Weld CR 114/108
Peregrine Falcon at Dover Reservoir (Nunn)
Herring Gull at Woods Lake
Great-tailed Grackle, Red-necked Phalarope, Black-necked Stilt at Weld CR 59 Marsh
Burrowing Owl Weld CR 33 btw 100/98 on west
brewer's Blacbird Beebe Draw

I mentioned committee (meaning more than one) on my subject line because there are more than two people awaiting to "greet" birders.  The first welcoming committe arrived to us by his unlicensed motor vehicle and we thinking we were getting cookies were greeted by him taking our license plate numbers down.  On the east side of reservoir where curlew is another gentleman came to us and we thought--this has to be cookies!  Wrong.  he greeted us with "That's my mailbox over there, do you know what ID theft is?  if you don't leave I'll be calling the sheriff."  Like Norm, frustrated as we were we decided to leave.  Let's just say you would have more success reasoning with a rock than these two gentleman--and I use that term generously.

Birders beware!

All birds:

American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
Western MEadowlark
Mourning Dove
American Goldfinch
Red-tailed Hawk
European Starling
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian-collared Dove
American Kestrel
Horned Lark
Burrowing Owl
Peregrine Falcon
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Black-billed Magpie
Red-winged Blackbird
Canda Goose
mallard
great Horned Owl
Western Grebe
mcCow's Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Loggerhead Shrike
Sage Thrasher
Common Raven
Swainson's Hawk
Bluejay
Northern Shoveler
Greater yellowlegs
Barn Swallow
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Ruddy Duck
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
American Coot
Great Blue Heron
Song Sparrow
Double-crested Cormorant
Cinnamon Teal
Lesser Scaup
Herring Gull
American Wigeon
Bald Eagle
Gadwall
American White Pelican
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Flicker
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown-headed Cowbird
Black-necked Stilt
Long-billed Curlew
Ring-blled Gull
Bufflehead
great-tailed Grackle
Red-necked Phalarope
Least Sandpiper
Lark Bunting
Brewer's Blackbird

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
Mobile:  http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m

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