[cobirds] Re: Anyone nocturnal listening tonight?

Man! You called this one right, Bryan... :-)

The night flight over Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, has been heavy indeed the past 75 minutes (0145-0300, Sunday morning, Aug. 23). All sorts of stuff up there (UPLAND SANDPIPER RIGHT NOW!! WOOHOO!!)...warblers, sparrows, tanager/grosbeak calls, oriole/meadowlark calls, Lark Buntings, Wilson's Warblers, even a Barn Owl. Just a brilliant night. If you're up, go outside an listen. This flight shaping up to be one for the ages.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, Colorado

P.s. While I have y'all's attention, I'll mention that Ish Reservoir, northern Boulder County, has decent, but not great, mudflats. Hannah Floyd and Andrew Floyd and Jesse Bowen and I stopped off there yesterday evening, Saturday, Aug. 22, on our way back from Laramie County, Wyoming. (BARN OWL AGAIN.) We saw a Stilt Sandpiper, a Townsend's Warbler (in the west side willows), and two oddities: an early Herring Gull and a Peale's (or Peale's-like) Peregrine Falcon. Up in Wyoming, the Wyoming Hereford Ranch, Laramie County, was brilliant, as usual, with the headliner being a Pine Warbler. 

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 9:30:40 PM UTC-6, Bryan Guarente wrote:

There likely isn't enough cloud cover to keep the birds low enough, but we should be getting birds on the move tonight from the north-northwest.  

The following animation is centered on Denver, CO (green circle).  

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/850hPa/orthographic=-104.99,39.74,1500

With the frontal passage earlier this evening, we should be in for migration, so keep your ears peeled tonight and eyes peeled tomorrow.  This is "early" migration (yes, Ted, migration has been going on since July), so don't expect any blockbusters, but expect some turnover.  I had a Wilson's Warbler this evening in my local park which is likely a migrant.

Good luck if you go listening or looking.

Bryan Guarente

Instructional Designer/Meteorologist

UCAR/The COMET Program

Boulder, CO

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