Dear Cobirders,
After leaving Twin Lakes this afternoon (5/8) I headed over to Walden
Ponds/Sawhill Open Space to meet up with Bob Zilly and Mike Blatchy
and search the area near Boulder Creek for Warblers. We were not
disappointed. After a slow start to the birding, with cooling
temperatures and an increasingly strong SE wind, we ran into our first
group of migrants at Sawhill #4 which held 4 Snowy Egrets. Next came
a FOS Bullock's Oriole in the bushes south of Sawhill #15. Then the
Warbler jackpot (number of individuals, not necessarily variety) just
west of Sawhill #12. We had Yellow Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers,
Orange-crowned Warblers and one low-to-the-ground and easy to see
Blackpoll Warbler. The sheer number of Orange-crowned Warblers was
amazing, at one point, they were flying into a small shrub that
threatened to become a clown-car of Warblers. Chipping Sparrows, Blue-
gray Gnatcatchers and a Plumbeous Vireo rounded out the group. We
never managed to catch up with this energy filled band of Warblers
again, but did find a FOS Eastern Kingbird, a Common Yellowthroat, and
some Yellow-headed Blackbirds (back finally). We wound up the tiring
day, wishing we had brought jackets and watching the cloud of Swallows
and two Forster's Terns in Cottonwood Marsh.
Cheers,
Walter Szeliga
Boulder, CO
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