[cobirds] Chatfield State Park (Jeff/Doug), Anton (Wash) 9/27

Hi Everyone—

 

Saturday 9/27 I visited Chatfield State Park. I saw a total of 5 Sabine’s Gulls (4 imm, 1 adult) east of the marina toward the mouth of Plum Creek. In the woods along Plum Creek south of Plum Creek Picnic Area, I heard a sapsucker sp. and a Gray Catbird. When I saw Joe Roller’s e-mail about Bill K and the shorebirds of Washington County, I drove straight over, and happily, most of them were still there: 1 Am Golden-Plover, 2 Black-bellied Plovers, 4 Killdeer, about 5 each of Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 Baird’s Sandpipers, 1 Wilson’s Phalarope. Lots of ducks there, too (Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Green-winged Teal). CR CC goes through downtown Anton. CR 12 veers off of US 36 two miles east at CR EE; go 4 miles east on CR 12 to CR JJ, stop at the big black mailbox.

 

Mark Miller

Longmont, CO