[cobirds] Northeast Colorado - Mostly Logan county

16 August 2015

with Pat O'Driscoll

Tamarack SWA, Red Lion SWA, and Jumbo Reservoir

0700-1300

There were only a few areas of standing water at Red Lion, Jumbo reservoir water level was high, with only a little shorebird habitat on the edges, and the west side of Tamarack was blocked from driving in by a barbed wire fencing placed across the road.  

Some of the notable birds:

• Northern Bobwhite and Wild Turkey (TAM)
  
• Red-bellied Woodpecker (TAM), Northern Flickers-yellow shafted (TAM, RL, JR), and Red-headed Woodpeckers (TA<m RLm JR).  The Red-headed total was a count of 50 across all three areas.  There was also a probably Hairy, just to round out the group
  
• Loggerhead Shrike (TAM)
• Both Eastern and Western Kingbirds, Eastern and Western Wood-pewees (TAM), and an Olive-sided Flycatcher (TAM)
• Too many Yellow Warblers and American Kestrels to count
• Lark and Lazuli Buntings (along 385 at TAM for the Laz)
• Cedar Waxwings, Belted Kingfisher, Brown Thrasher and an unidentified vireo, all at Tamarack Pond
• Orchard and Baltimore Oriole (RL)
• Black and Forster's Terns (JR)
• Least, Western, Baird's, Semipalmated, and Spotted Sandpipers, Killdeer, and Wilson's Phalaropes.  (phalaropes at RL, Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper everywhere, the rest at JR),  Low total numbers of shorebirds due to the limited habitat.
• Grasshopper Sparrow (385 at TAM)

Noted juvenile or young birds:  Wild Turkey, Red-headed Woodpecker, Grasshopper Sparrow, Wilson's Phalarope, Cedar Waxwing, and some of the terns and gulls.

John Breitsch

Denver, CO

https://www.flickr.com/photos/breitschbirding/

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