Along with the Buff-breasted at Jackson, this makes three Buff-breasted so far! Add in Pablo Quezada's Ruddy Turnstone at Jackson and the Short-billed Dowitcher found by Luke Pheneger, the Bushongs, and David Dowell at Prewitt, it looks like it will be a great shorebird season, just as this spring was a great warbler season! Who knows what might show up?
Ben Sampson,
Boulder, CO
On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 10:06:19 AM UTC-6 Dave Leatherman wrote:
Met some friends (Nina Routh, Norm Lewis, Mike Serruto and Gary Potter) at Prewitt Res yesterday. We all drove separately, wore masks when appropriate, imaginary hugs and high fives. For me, it was good to get out of the cemetery. Ha.
HIGHLIGHTS were shorebirds along the west side mudflats, numbers significantly diminished from recent days Norm tells me:
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (2, together, only rarely closer than 6 feet apart) at least 100 yards from the water's edge on drying upper "beach"
Black-bellied Plover (1) in beautiful breeding plumagePectoral Sandpiper (1)Long-billed Curlew (3)Assorted common peepA dowitcher we could not turn into a Short-billedBlack Terns (few)No jaegers that we saw
In the trees along the outlet canal and below the dam we had many migrants typical of early autumn, mostly common things like Yellow and Wilson's Warblers, along with one Townsend's Warbler, one MacGillivray's Warbler, Red-headed Woodpecker, family of Eastern Bluebirds (tell me what you think the mystery bird is (that I didn't see until looking at the photos last night) flying below the juvenile bluebird, see below), Rock Wren, flyover Pine Siskin, lots of empids in the olives including Willow and Gray (Norm, Mike and Gary), no doubt some goodies we missed.
Along US6 and the entry roads into Prewitt were an amazing number of Eastern Kingbirds (at least 25), with good numbers of Westerns mixed in.If you go out there to check the shorebirds, wear mud boots but don't go too close to the water's edge as the black, anaerobic mud has designs on capturing you for posterity. Thinking "half cup full", if you had food and water on you, the water level is dropping fast enough you might escape after 3-4 days.
Dave LeathermanFort Collins
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