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The Lake Meredith (Crowley) Brown Pelican is an immature. I watched the bird for one hour. It did fly around a lot and gulls would occasionally chase it when it was in the air. I never saw it plunge-dive or feed while it was in the water. Here are some highlights from a 4-reservoir bird outing. Holbrook Reservoir (Otero) - low water level with lots of shoreline available; shorebirds mostly on the south shore Osprey - 1 Black-necked Stilt - 12 American Avocet - 3 Willet - 2 Least Sandpiper - 12 Western Sandpiper - 2 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Lake Cheraw (Otero) - low water levels - lots of shorebirds, but for peeps, just out of range for me, mostly viewed from the causeway. In town viewing spot poor due to tumbleweeds along most of south and west ends of the lake. Black-necked Stilt - lots American Avocet - a few Snowy Plover - 4 or 5 that I saw Wilson's Phalarope - 20 Peep species - 100 Lake Meredith (Crowley) - water is high, very little shoreline BROWN PELICAN - east end Willet - 2 lots of big grebes Lake Henry (Crowley) - water is high, very little habitat for shorebirds Semipalmated Sandpiper - 6 Least Sandpiper - 2 Forster's Tern - 5 Other Rocky Ford State Wildlife Area - there is a LOT of varied bird habitat here. Green Heron - 1 Cattle Egret - 3 flyover Brown Thrasher - 3 singing lots of White-crowned Sparrows and Chipping Sparrows Wild Turkey - 2 About 10 Western Kingbirds in scattered locations. Lots of Cliff Swallows in most locations Bill Maynard Colorado Springs ____________________________________________________________ Jumpstart your accounting career! Click for free information. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTEQLl1xCSHYPD8xKrxOJl9khlikGItGZPxJ4CuAmbt8wJzDL18FTC/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
