[cobirds] First Shorebirds and Weekend Wrapup [Weld]

Hi all

First, Raptor Alley (Saturday) was fun and productive as usual.  Gorgeous weather for last trip of season.  Total raptors seen:  37:

• Great Horned Owl (on nest)
• Ferruginous Hawk - 12
• Red-tailed Hawk - 8
• Northern Harrier
• Rough-legged Hawk - 3
• Prairie Falcon
• Bald Eagle - 3 (one on nest)
• American Kestrel - 6
• Unidentified - 2

Other interesting wildlife:

• Mountain Bluebird - 5
• Common Raven - 2
• Greater White-fronted Goose - 2 (Crom Lake) also ducks
  
• Snow Goose - 4 (Crom Lake)
• Pronghorn - 15
• Killdeer - 2 (Crom Lake)
  

My Sunday excursion included 20 bodies of water of which majority open, some still frozen and a total of 50 species.  Those waters that were open were FULL of geese, gulls and ducks.

• Cozzens Lake had 4 Greater Yellowlegs
  
• Drake Lake had thousands of gulls roosting on ice--Ring-Billeds and Herring as far as I could tell
  
• Angel Lake had 40-50 Snow Goose
• Weld CR 59 Marsh had two Killdeer
  
• Latham Marsh and Beebe Draw had nice flooded fields, no birds
• Loloff Reservoir covered in geese and ducks-lone Greater White-fronted Goose
  
• Stewart's Pond full of geese and ducks-marsh was frozen but many geese standing on the ice-lone Greater White-fronted Goose
• Behren's Reservoir (seen by standing atop my car) full of geese and ducks including two Red-breasted Merganser
• Woods Lake partially open in SE corner--two Greater White-fronted Goose, two Snows
• Active (on nest) Bald Eagle nests in Nunn, Evans, Greeley
  

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn

http://coloradobirder.club/

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