At 06:15 am I arrived at Barr Lake just as the Great Eastern Sun began to rise. With the sun behind me I began to look for shorebirds along the southeastern shore. Most of the shorebirds were in there juvenile, neat and tidy appearing plumage.
Avocet 8-10
Killdeer 60 +
Marbled Godwit 10-13
Baird's Sandpiper 40 +
Least Sandpiper 15-20 (juvenile and adult plumage)
Semipalmated Sandpiper 10-15
Spotted Sandpiper less than 10
Solitary Sandpiper 5-8
Lesser Yellowlegs 20-25
Greater Yellowlegs (just heard) 4-6
Wilson's Phalarope 5-8
At 8 o'clock it began to get hot and I left
I can only wonder what the list could have been if I'd walked the shore all around Barr Lake
Bob Righter
Denver CO
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