My wife had two pairs of mountain bluebirds at Clement on Friday - thank you for this update! She's walking there a lot, so now she'll know she should be looking out for crazy stuff!
-- I think we saw your prairie falcon Saturday - cool bird!
Bryan
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:30:03 AM UTC-6, Scott Somershoe wrote:
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:30:03 AM UTC-6, Scott Somershoe wrote:
With the stay at home order, I've been birding Clement Park, Jefferson Co., a lot more than even usual. Clement is about across the street from my house, so easy access. Anyway, I've been birding there fairly regularly and have gotten some crazy birds for that place in the last year or so (esp. considering the lack of habitat). Recently, I've been slowly picking up some good birds for the little place that it is.A few highlights (for me anyway):April 13 - In the driving snow I had an early Bank Swallow (others were reported around the area that day too) and a Greater Yellowlegs. These were my firsts for the park.April 16 - Again in the snow, I had my first Turkey Vulture for the park, which is really weird with how much time I've spent there over the years. Park bird #99, not that I'm counting.April 17 - I stumbled on the Eastern Phoebe that Tina Jones reported a few days earlier. Park bird #100! Then almost immediately I found a Vesper Sparrow, which was also new for my park list.April 19 - Last evening I was out with the family and we had a Willet on the "shoreline" on the east side. The water is up and there's almost no shoreline at all! The Willet was very tame and my boys (3.5 yrs old) and daughter (7) got to see it, and then of course the boys yelled and it flew. Great bird for this park.April 20 - This morning I went to check on the Willet situation and found a gorgeous adult female Wilson's Phalarope instead! Park bird #103. Then thinking it couldn't get much weirder, a pair of LATE Greater White-fronted Geese flew around a couple times, calling, and giving good looks. They circled and flew northwest. Weird encounter. Then my second park record of a Prairie Falcon was perched on a light post barely 100m from the house (got my first yard Prairie a week ago, with 2nd yard records of Peregrine and Golden Eagle all within 45 min!). This Prairie let me sneak around to get a better lighting and looks (phone-binoc photo in my eBird list below) and we stared at each other a bit before it flew over the Columbine memorial, without even looking back, but it scared the daylights out of the prairie dogs.It has been really fun to see what I can find at the "usual little patch" when I hit it constantly!Good local birding,Scott SomershoeLittleton CO
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