Hi all
Al Levantin, Tom McConnell and I enjoyed a day birding some in Delta County yesterday, mainly around Delta itself. We saw 50 or so species there, plus a couple more in Garfield
Temperature ranged from a chilly -6F (-21C) along Muddy Creek by 133 east of Paonia, to 43F (+6C) around Delta in the afternoon sunshine
Some highlights included
HARRIS'S SPARROW just south of Hotchkiss in scrub on east side of 3400Rd at 38.785105, -107.724793, just south of the electric station along with 12 or so Song Sparrows
3 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE Delta on the pond north of G50 Rd, opposite Escalante Wildlife area at 38.749495, -108.144138
SANDHILL CRANE approx 2,500 – 3,000 Delta by G50 road, west of the Gunnison Bridge, also 28 at FRUITGROWERS RESERVOIR
At least 25 CACKLING GEESE Delta Confluence Park (most any of us have ever seen anywhere in Western Colorado), as well as a couple of thousand Canada Geese, 48 Common Mergansers, but zero Snow or Ross's Geese
Adult Ring-billed Gull Sweitzer Lake, plus at least 1,000 Canada Geese and 35+ Common Mergansers
Chukar and several Western Bluebirds in Escalante Canyon, south of the Gunnison river, but zero Black Phoebes in that area
PLUS at the end of the day
88 BARROW'S GOLDENEYES, Carbondale, Garfield County, on the pond viewed by looking southwest across the Roaring Fork from Satank Road, by hwy 82
Best regards
Dick Filby
Carbondale, CO
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