[cobirds] Glaucous-winged Gull, Union Res., Weld Co.

Sorry I didn’t get this out last night, but just getting to my computer this morning.  Anyway, after a relatively fruitless shorebirding run along one of my old routes in Northeastern Colorado (basically Prospect Res out to Jackson Res, Weld & Morgan Cos.) yesterday (Sat., 29 Apr 17), decided to swing back by Union Reservoir (Weld Co.) as I knew it had some shoreline; everything else is chockablock, but paradoxically many old farm ponds were dry.

 

Glad I made that choice as while there were a few fun shorebirds, the bird of the day was a fist year GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL which swept through the northwest corner of the lake and gave a good view.  Decent sized, very uniformly tan gull, with translucent primaries, and good sized all black bill.  Definitely a nice surprise.  In terms of the shorebirds, the “fun” ones included three (3) BLACK-NECKED STILTS, two (2) AMERICAN AVOCETS, a MARBLED GODWIT, a couple of WILLETS, and a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, amongst others.  So, if you are hankering for shorebirds before the main push of passerines make their showing, I’d recommend hitting Union.

 

Good Birding,

Doug Ward

 

PS – As this is my first regular post here to Cobirds, I’m bringing my posting etiquette from another listserve, so if you think the CAPITALIZED species  of interest reporting, not just rarities, is too much like yelling here, just let me know and I’ll adapt.  Plus I need to get into checking and reporting to the rare bird alert posting as well (suppose I should be reading those too).

 

29 April 2017  Union Reservoir, Weld Co., CO

Canada Goose – 2

Mallard – 6

Blue-winged Teal – 4m 4f

Cinnamon Teal – 1m 1f

Northern Shoveler – 4m

Green-winged Teal – 2m 2f

Western Grebe – 30

Double-crested Cormorant – 10

Great Blue Heron – 1

Bald Eagle – 1 ad

Red-tailed Hawk – 1

American Avocet – 2

Black-necked Stilt - 3

Semipalmated Plover – 1

Killdeer – 15

Marbled Godwit – 1

Least Sandpiper – 1

Semipalmated Sandpiper – 5

Wilson’s Snipe – 1

Willet – 2

Lesser Yellowlegs – 1

Bonaparte’s Gull – 2ad 1-1^st

Franklin’s Gull – 4ad

Ring-billed Gull – 1ad

GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL – 1-1^st

Eurasian Collared-Dove – 4

Mourning Dove – 6

American Kestrel – 1

Say’s Pheobe – 2 (out on mudflats feeding with peeps & Semi Plover – weird)

Black-billed Magpie – 2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2

Tree Swallow – 50

Violet-green Swallow – 10

Barn Swallow – 20

swallow sp. – 150

American Robin – 3

European Starling – 20

Yellow-rumped Warbler – 10 “Myrtle”

Song Sparrow – 1

Red-winged Blackbird – 15

Western Meadowlark – 3

Yellow-headed Blackbird – 10

Common Grackle – 5

House Finch – 1

 

 

 

 

[cobirds] Dillon, Summit County

Backyard bird

HERMIT THRUSH

ID - Kevin Corwin helped me with ID (thank you Kevin)

Confirmed by Tony Leukering

admittedly the bird has been with me for past week; finally zeroed-in on the beautiful song and the rest is history.  I've got pictures if anyone cares.

Bonnie Boex

Dillon

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 30 April 2017

Compiler:             Joyce Takamine

e-mail:                 RBA AT cobirds.org

Date:                    April 30, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, April 30 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)

NOTE:  The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families has changes.

Mute Swan (Weld)

Trumpeter Swan (Archuleta, *Routt)

Mallard (Mexican intergrade) (Boulder)

Surf Scoter (Jackson)

Barrow's Goldeneye (Montrose, *Pitkin)

Sharp-tailed Grouse (Weld)

Greater Prairie-Chicken (Washington)

Chimney Swift ( Boulder, El Paso)

Black Rail (Bent)

Black-bellied Plover (*Bent, Crowley , Kiowa)

Snowy Plover (Crowley, Kiowa)

Semipalmated Plover (Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, *La Plata, *Larimer, *Weld)

Mountain Plover (*Weld)

Upland Sandpiper (Logan)

Whimbrel (El Paso,*Jefferson,  *Larimer,  Weld)

Long-billed Curlew ( Jefferson, La Plata,  *Larimer)

Stilt Sandpiper (Kiowa)

Sanderling (*Boulder, El Paso, Kiowa, Mesa, Weld)

White-rumped Sandpiper (Morgan)

Pectoral Sandpiper (Crowley)

Semipalmated Sandpiper (Crowley, *Douglas, El Paso, *Fremont, *Jefferson,  Kiowa, La Plata,*Larimer,  Morgan, *Weld)

Short-billed Dowitcher (El Paso,  *Larimer, *Weld)

Solitary Sandpiper (Boulder, Jefferson, *Weld)

BROWN PELICAN (Mesa)

Green Heron (Jefferson, Pueblo)

Glossy Ibis (Mesa, Weld)

Mississippi Kite (Denver)

Broad-winged Hawk (Bent, *Fremont,  Douglas,  Jefferson)

Laughing Gull (Weld)

Thayer's Gull (*Larimer)

Lesser Black-backed Gull (*Larimer)

GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL (*Weld)

Caspian Tern (*Larimer, *Fremont, Mesa, Weld)

Red-headed Woodpecker (Logan)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan)

Williamson's Sapsucker   (Pueblo)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (El Paso)

American three-toed Woodpecker (Gunnison)

Least Flycatcher (Douglas, Jefferson)

Gray Flycatcher ( *Fremont, Larimer, Mesa, Rio Grande)

Black Phoebe (Boulder, *Fremont, *Garfield, Rio Blanco)

Eastern Phoebe (Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas,  *Fremont, Jefferson)

Winter Wren (Bent)

Caroline Wren (Pueblo)

BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER (Mesa)

Curve-billed Thrasher (Bent)

Lapland Longspur (Jackson, Weld)

Chestnut-collared Longspur (*Weld)

McCown's Longspur (Douglas, *Larimer, *Weld)

Worm-eating Warbler (Bent)

Black-and-white Warbler (Boulder)

Nashville Warbler (Denver, El Paso, Jefferson)

Northern Parula (Arapahoe, *Boulder)

Palm Warbler (Jefferson)

Yellow-throated Warbler (Pueblo)

Black-throated Gray Warbler (*Boulder, Jefferson)

Cassin's Sparrow (Washington)

Brewer's Sparrow (Boulder)

Grasshopper Sparrow (Washington, Weld)

Fox Sparrow (Boulder)

Northern Cardinal (Logan)

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On April 26 at Cherry Creek SP East Boat Ramp, a Northern Parula was reported by Rebecca Laroche, Cheri Phillips, Cheryl Teuton and Dan Brooke.  On April 27 at Cherry Creek SP East Boat Ramp, Cynthia Madsen, Karen Drozda, Loch Kilpatrick, and Benn Sampson reported Northern Parula.  On April 28 at Cherry Creek SP East Boat Ramp, Northern Parula was reported by Meg Reck and many other birders and Ajit and Liza Anthony reported Eastern Phoebe.

ARCHULETA COUNTY:

---On April 28 at Pagosa Lake, Brook Nelson reported Trumpeter Swan.

BENT COUNTY:

---On April 25 at Tempel Grove on CR 35, Dave Leatherman reported 2 Broad-winged Hawks (1 a, 1imm).

---On April 26 at Fort Lyon, Weston Smith reported 2 Black rail, 3 Curve-billed Thrashers, and Winter Wren.

---On April 27 and April 28 at Tempel Grove, Duane Nelson reported Worm-eating Warbler.

---On April 29 on Hwy 50 east of Lake Hasty, David Ely reported a flyover Black-bellied Plover.

BOULDER COUNTY:

---On April 25 at Boulder Creek and 75th St, Mike Hensley and Rebecca Grieser reported Black and Eastern Phoebe.  On April 26 Randy Siebert reported Black and Eastern Phoebe at Boulder Creek and 75th St.  On April 27 at Boulder Creek at 75th St, Mike Patterson reported Black and Eastern Phoebe.

---On April 24 at Hecla Lake in Lafayette, Ted Floyd reported Mallard (Mexican intergrade).

---On April 27 at Walden/Sawhill Ponds in Boulder, Luke Pheneger and Nick Moore reported 3 Solitary Sandpipers, Eastern Phoebe.  On April 27 at Walden Ponds, Luke Pheneger reported Solitary Sandpiper, Northern Parula, Slate-colored Fox Sparrow and f Black-and-white Warbler.

---On April 28 at CU East Campus, Peter Gent reported 2 Black-throated Gray Warblers at Boulder Creek and Chimney Swift.  On April 29 at CU East Campus, Laura Steadman reported Black-throated Gray Warbler and Mark Minner-Lee reported m Tennessee Warbler.

---On April 28 at Lagerman Reservoir, Peter Gent reported Sandering.

DENVER COUNTY:

---On April 26, Chris Goulart reported a pair of Mississippi Kites at end of Delgany by Cherry Creek.

---On April 27 at Rocky Mountain Lake Park, Gabriel Wiltse reported Nashville Warbler.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

--- On April 24 at Chatfield SP Model Airplane Field, David Suddjian reported McCown's Longspur.

---On April 27 at Chatfield SP downstream of Kingfisher Bridge, Loch Kilpatrick reported Broad-winged Hawk and Least Flycatcher.

---On April 29 at Chatfield SP Marina Sandspit, Loch Kilpatrick and Dean Shoup reported Semipalmated Sandpiper.  On April 29 at Plum Creek Delta, Bob Anderson and Kevin DeBoer reported 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

EL PASO COUNTY:

--- On April 26 at Ramah SWA, Cindy Bouldin reported Sanderling and David Tonnessen, Joy and Leonard Lake reported Semipalmated Plover, Whimbrel, and Sanderling.  On April 28 at Ramah SWA, Karen Goetz and Matt Clark reported Sandering, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and 2 Short-billed Dowitchers.

---On April 24 at Paint Mine OS, Rod Schmidt reported Black-throated Sparrow.

---On April 24, Chris Goulart reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker at Chico Basin Ranch.

---On April 26 at Sondermann Park, Linda Hodge reported Nashville Warbler after first bridge.

---On April 26 at Memorial Park and Prospect Lake, Dale Adams reported 6 Chimney Swift.  On April 27, 2 Chimney Swifts were reported by David and Cheryl Hubbard at Memorial Park and Prospect Lake.  On April 28 at Memorial Park and Prospect Lake, Dale Adams reported Chimney Swift.

FREMONT COUNTY:

---On April 29 at Holcim Wetlands (private property, view from hwy), Brandon Percival and Kara Carragher reported 11 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

---On April 29 at Blue Heron Ponds on Hwy 115, Brandon Percival and Kara Carragher reported Caspian Tern.

---On April 29 at Lakeside Cemetery in Canon City, Brandon Percival and Kara Carragher reported 4 Gray Flycatchers.

---On April 29 on Canon City Riverwalk between Sells Lake and Raynolds Ave, Brandon Percival and Kara Carragher reported 4 Broad-winged Hawks, 18 Gray Flycatchers, 3 Black Phoebe, and 2 Eastern Phoebe.

GARFIELD COUNTY:

---On April 28 in Carbondale by Crystal River just downstream of Fish Hatchery, Dick Filby reported 2 Black Phoebe.

JACKSON COUNTY:

---On April 28 at Walden Reservoir, Christian Nunes reported young male Surf Scoter.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On April 24 at Robert Easton Regional Park, David Suddjian reported 2 Long-billed Curlew.

---On April 24 At Harriman Lake Park, David Suddjian reported Green Heron and Solitary Sandpiper.

---On April 24 at Chatfield SP, David Suddjian reported Least Flycatcher upstream of Kingfisher Bridge and a pair of Eastern Phoebe near the bridge.

---On April 24 at Deer Creek at Valley Rd near South Valley Park, David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.  On April 25 at Deer creek at Valley Road, David Suddjian reported a pair of Eastern Phoebe.

---On April 25near Buckhorn Road bridge about .3 miles downstream from Valley Road, David Suddjian reported pair of Eastern Phoebe.

---On April 25 in Willow Creek Park near Chatfield Ave downstream of Garrison St,  David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On April 25 at Masey Draw at Dakota Hogback close to culvert un C470, David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On Apri l 25 at Bear Creek Lake Park Big Soda Lakes N trail, Bruce Cyganowski, Phil Lyon, and Frank Farrell reported Black-throated Gray Warbler.  On April 26 at Bear Creek Lake Park Big Soda Lakes N trail, Matt Clark, Susan Bonfiglio, Phil Lyon and Tom Behnfield reported Black-throated Gray Warbler.

---On April 25 at White Deer Valley Cougar Road, David Suddjian reported 2 Eastern Phoebe and Nashville Warbler.

---On April 26, David Suddjian reported ad Broad-wingd Hawk flew over St Mary Church at South Prince St in Littleton.

---On April 28 at Harriman Lake Park, Patrick O'Driscoll, Mike Henwood, and Rebecca Laroche reported Western Palm Warbler and Least Flycatcher. 

---On April 29 at Chatfield swim Beach, David Suddjian reported Whimbrel flying North and 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

KIOWA COUNTY:

---On April 25 at Nee Noshe Reservoir, Dave Leatherman reported 3 Sanderling, Long-billed Curlew, 150 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 5 Semipalmated Plovers, and 2 Snowy Plovers.

---On April 28 at Kiowa Creek at CR 40, Anne Casella reported 6 Snowy Plover, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, and 2 Stilt Sandpipers.

LA PLATA COUNTY:

---On April 25 at Pastorius Reservoir, Jason St Pierre and Susan Allerton reported Semipalmated Plover.  On April 25 at Pastorius Reservoir, Amy Dobins reported Semipalmated Plover and 5 Long-billed Curlews.  On April 26 at Pastorius Reservoir, Susan Allerton reported Semi palmated Plover.  On April 27 at Pastorius Reservoir, Susan Allerton reported Semipalmated Plover and Long-billed Curlew.  On April 29 at Pastorius Reservoir, Steve Smith reported Semipalmated Plover.

LARIMER COUNTY:

---On April 24 at Horseshoe reservoir, Nick Komar reported 2 Caspian Terns.  On April 25 at Horsehsoe Reservoir, Nick Komar and David Wade reported Whimbrel and 1-st cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull.  On April 26 at Horsehsoe Reservoir, Nick Komar reported 2-nd cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull and Caspian Tern.

---On April 28 at Lee Martinez Park, Rob Sparks reported Gray Flycatcher.

---On April 29 on E CR 60 W of N CR 3, Nick Komar, Georgia Doyle, and David Wade reported Semipalmated Plover, 25 Semipalmated Sandpipers and they heard a McCown's Longspur.

---On April 29 at Boyd Lake, Austin Hess and Nick Komar reported 10 Short-billed Dowitchers, 5 Whimbrel, and 2 Long-billed Curlew.

---On April 29 at Horseshoe Reservoir, Austin Hess and Nick Komar reported 3 Caspian Terns and Anne Casella reported Thayer's Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, and 4 Caspian Terns.

LOGAN COUNTY:

---On April 24 at Tamarck Ranch SWA, Randy Siebert reported 2 Red-headed Woopeckers, Red-bellied Woodpecker, and Northern Cardinal.

---On April 24 on Hwy 138 between Crook and Proctor, Randy Siebert reported Upland Sandpiper.

MESA COUNTY:

---On April 24 at Highline Lake SP, Mike Henwood reported Glossy Ibis.

---On April 25 at Corn Lake, Susan Longest reported BROWN PELICAN.  On April 26, Dave and Diane Trappet t and many other birders reported BROWN PELICAN at Corn Lake.  On April 27, David Chartier and several other birders reported BROWN PELICAN at Corn Lake.  On April 28, near Corn Lake, Jason St. Pierre reported Brown Pelican soaring west of the lake and later in the day Denise and Mark Vollmar reported that the Brown Pelican returned to Corn Lake.

---On April 27 at Highline Reservoir, Coen Dexter reported Sandering and Gray Flycatcher.

---On April 27 at Coal Canyon Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Area, Clinton Nienhaus reported 3 possible BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHERS.  If documented and accepted this would be a new state bird.

---On April 28 at Highline Lake SP, David Price and Carol Ortenzio reported 8 Sanderling and 8 Caspian Terns.

MONTROSE COUNTY:

---On April 26 at Black Canyon Crystal Dam, Betty Fenton reported Barrow's Goldeneye.

MORGAN COUNTY:

---On April 24 at intersection of Hwy 71 and CR JJ, Clinton Nienhaus reported 4 White-rumped Sandpipers and 7 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

PITKIN COUNTY:

---On April 28 at Spring Park Reservoir in El Jebel, Dick Filby reported 14 Barrow's Goldeneyes.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

---On April 26 at Mineral Palace Park, Van Truan reported Yellow-throated Warbler in SW corner.  On April 28 at Mineral Palace Park, Leon Bright reported Yellow-throated Warbler.

---On April 24 east of Reservoir Road, Rick Clawges reported Carolina Wren,  On April 25, Brandon Percival reported singing Carolina Wren, 6 Black Poebe along Arkansas River East of Pueblo Blvd.

---On April 25 at Pueblo City Park, Brandon Percival reported Green Heron.

RIO BLANCO COUNTY:

---On April 25 at Circle Park in Meeker, Jan Leonard reported Black Phoebe.

RIO GRANDE COUNTY:

---On April 23 near Bowen, John Rawinski reported Gray Flycatcher.

ROUTT COUNTY:

---On April 28 at Stagecoach SP, Lisa Edwards and Chris Owens reported imm Trumpeter Swan.  On April 28 at Stagecoach Reservoir, Sue Riffe reported Trumpeter Swan.

WASHINGTON COUNTY:

---On April 22 at CR P and CR 52 Chris Wood and Jessie Barry reported 4 Greater Prairie-Chicken, 2 CASSIN'S Sparrows and 2 Grasshopper Sparrows.

WELD COUNTY:

---On April 24, Dale and Joel Adams reported Mute Swan and 2 Short-billed Dowitchers at Stewart's Pond.  On April 25 at Stewart's Pond,  Steve Mlodinow reported Mute Swan and Short-billed Dowitcher.  On April 27 at Stewart's Pond, Gene Rutherford reported 2 Short-billed Dowitchers and Solitary Sandpiper.  On April 29 at Stewart's Pond, Gene Rutherford reported 2 Short-billed Dowitchers.

---On April 26 at CR 59 Pond, Rebecca Grieser reported Glossy Ibis.

---On April 23 on Cr 134 between CR 111 and CR 115, Art Hudak and Mark Chavez reported 19 Sharp-tailed Grouse and 2 Grasshopper Sparrows.

---On April 27 at Union Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow, Luke Pheneger, and Maikel Wise reported 2 Sanderling, and 4 Semipalmated Sandpipers.  On April 28 at Union Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 10 Semipalmated Plovers, 2 Sandering, and Caspian Tern.

---On April 28 at Lower Reservoir on CR 48, Tom and Mary France reported 10-12 Whimbrel.

---On April 28 at CR 136 east of CR 99, Gene Rutherford reported 2 Grasshopper Sparrows.

---On April 28 at CR 99 between CR 130 and CR 132, Gene Rutherford reported Sharp-tailed Grouse and Grasshopper Sparrow.

---On April 28 at Pawnee NG Murphy's Pasture area and auto tour stopes 2 and 3, Robert Beauchamp reported Grasshopper Sparrow.

---On April 28 at CR 86 and CR 105, John Kvarnback reported Chest-collared Longspur, 50 McCown's Longspur and Grasshopper Sparrow.

---On April 29 at Union Reservoir, a GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL was reported by Gene Rutherford and Steve Mlodinow.  Mlodinow also reported 2 Semipalmated Plovers and 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

---On April 28 at Crom Lake (just south of CR90 off of CR 31), Josh Bruening reported Semipalmated Sandpiper and 2 Solitary Sandpipers.

---On April 29 at CR 79 and CR 14, Josh Brueing reported 2 Mountain Plovers.

---On April 29 on CR 96, Josh Bruening reported 6 McCown's Longspurs.

---On April 28 on CR 69, Josh Bruening reported 3 m Chestnut-collared Longspurs.

Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:

The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, April 30 will be to First Creek at Denver Open Space led by John Breitsch and Patrick O-Driscoll (jbreitsch AT Hotmail.com; 303-588-0552). This trip is full

The DFO Field Trip for Sunday April 30 will be to Monte Vista NWR led by jill Boice (jill AT booksandcats.net; 303-864-7580).  Meet at Visitor Center at 0800.

Directions:  6129 S. Highway 15, Monte Vista, CO 81144.  From Monte Vista, go east on US 286/160 about 3 miles.  Turn South on S Co Rd 3E and travel about 8.7 miles.  Go west on W Co Rd 6 2 to the Visitor Center.  

   Overnight trip.  Casey Setash, a graduate student at CSU, is tracking Cinnamon teal at Monte Vista NWR.

She will take us to an area where she is trapping ducks for hand-on-fun.  Then she will take us for a tour of a couple of the interesting areas around the refuge that might include areas that are not normally open to the public.  For Those arriving in Monte Vista on Saturday, we will probably meet for a late afternoon visit to the refuge, to be determined.  Please try to carpool from Denver.  Contact Jill for further details.  Register online or contact leader.

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder

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[cobirds] Crom Lake

All,

I should probably have posted that Crom Lake is just south of Weld County Road 90 of off County Road 31.  My apologies.

Thanks

Josh Bruening

Fort Collins

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[cobirds] Larimer and Weld County ramblings/rumblings

To All of you intrepid observers,

It has been too long... What a day!?!  I left Fort Collins at 1pm with a heading that could be construed as having a serious eastern bent hoping that I might run in to a few shorebirds...Shorebirds that would at least measure to my knees.  So on that note, I didn't see a Curlew or a Whimbrel or even Upland Sandpiper.  Bummer.  However, this trip was not a total waste.  The temp was between the 37-39 degree range no matter where I was.  The wind was liberally blowing from the northwest.

 Crom Lake:  This is one of the few "lakes" in the northern part of the state that just doesn't get it's due.  It is a great body of water with a shoreline that attracts them all.  Frankly, its a gem. I had a Dunlin here last year.   I have literally had every expected shorebird in Colorado here, save a Buff-breasted Sandpiper or Red Phalarope, over the last ten years.  And the turnover, even within a few hours today, was impressive.  I showed up there at approximately 130pm.  There were several Willet, Long-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Phalarope (FOS) and Semi-palmated Sandpiper(FOS).  There was one Baird's Sandpiper(FOS). 

 I left. I headed straight to Weld County Road 79 and 14.  This had been the most reliable spot for Mountain Plover for me over the last 3 years even with Winter Wheat growing like crazy.  I had two males today calling their heads off.  I stopped at Crow Valley long enough to see that it was Boy Scout weekend once again.  I relieved myself and headed on.  I moved north on CR77 all of the way to CR 124, aka practically Wyoming to check out Potter Lake.  I had about 18 Willet and 3 Marbled Godwit.

Heading back to CR 96 on the bird route, it took me some time to find any McCown's Longspur of which I finally found a  flock of 9 on  County Road 96.  I took a right on County Road 69 and found 3 male Chestnut-collared Longspur within the first 4 miles headed north toward 104..  Sparrows were sparce for the most part.  I had one Clay-colored Sparrow.  3  Chipping Sparrows.  37 Brewer's Sparrows that I could count.  1-White-Crowned Sparrow.  Not one Lark Bunting as of yet.  Horned Larks and Vesper Sparrows were ubiquitous.   

I headed back to Crom Lake on to find that the Baird's Sandpiper and Wilson's Phalarope had move on.  However they were replaced  with two Solitary Sandpiper and more Willet.  The Dowitcher were being harassed by a Peregrine Falcon.

I saw sooooo many cool things today.  I saw my first dark-morph Swainson's Hawk ever.  I saw White-tailed deer mixed with Mule-deer.  I saw Antelope and a Swift fox.  Snow was non-existent east of I-85.  I saw on set of Burrowing Owl eyes.  They seemed to be quite content with their choice of their subterranean dwellings.What I lacked in Owls I enjoyed in just being out there.  That for me these days, is a monumental feat. I didn't see a Say's Phoebe until I got back to Larimer County.

Best Bird:  Prairie Merlin-CR77 and 118 LATE!!!

82 species total

Josh Bruening

Fort Collins

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[cobirds] 4/29 feeder birds Centennial/Arapahoe

18 species at feeders today

Amazing contrast to see broad-tailed and black-chinned hummingbirds at snowy feeder, with 3 white-crowed sparrows on the ground beneath them

hummingbirds are up early...if your feeder is inside tonight, 0630 is about the time to put it out again

three robins ate suet almost exclusively

mourning and eurasian collard doves

crow, magpie (3), blue jay (1), starling (1...liked mealworms best)

common grackles - 15

red-winged blackbirds...20 m, 25 f

flicker, downy woodpecker

mountain and black capped chickadees

house sparrow (1)

house finches (12)

 

snowed all day...11 inches highest, but there had been some sinking of snow during the day

 

Karl Stecher

Centennial, near Orchard and Colorado Blvd

 

 

 

 

 

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[cobirds] Storm birds from JeffCo today

Had a fairly eventful day of snow birds today. Had a male and female AMGO hang out at my thistle sock most of the day, their yellow is beautiful against the snow. Also had 2 Broad-tailed hummingbirds in and out all day and then fighting in my bushes at sundown. Had one lone Pine Siskin and one Bushtit stop by in the afternoon. Not quite fallout but still fun to see UNusual suspects not normally at my feeders. Happy birding everybody!

Jennifer Hallam
Just South C-470 and Kipling

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