Hello everyone,
I got out yesterday afternoon to look for Sulids, rare cormorants, sand-plovers etc. Unfortunately none of those appeared. Boulder Reservoir has dropped significantly, leaving an attractive shoreline on the north shore. The only birds of note here were 7 adult and 1 juvenile CALIFORNIA GULL. Only shorebirds were 3 KILLDEER. Cottonwood Marsh is now Cottonwood Pond and is barely worth looking at. Maybe the high water will help replenish the food base here, but otherwise the murky depths don't have the spot's normal shorebird magnetism. North Teller Lake has a small sand island and a few feet of open shore. Again, only shorebirds present were 3 KILLDEER. 7 GREAT EGRETS slowly hunted the shore, and scores (150+) of local CANADA GEESE were loafing around. The pond by the recycle center on 63rd St was very full of water and empty of birds. This spot sometimes has a little shore which attracts the common (but someday a rare) Tringa sandpipers. The best birding of the day was to be had at Sombrero Marsh (down south of Arapahoe on 63rd). There were 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and a KILLDEER on the little bit of exposed mud. This is one of the only natural bodies of water in Boulder Co., and when there's actually water it's a very appealing muck-puddle. Plenty of eclipse MALLARDS present, and I had a fun time studying some eclipse/female BLUE-WINGED TEAL. The highest concentration of Double-crested Cormorants that I have found in town is around the private swim beach on Baseline Reservoir. None were loafing on the floating rafts yesterday evening, so they must go somewhere else to roost. It was interesting to note that a good 300 + RING-BILLED GULLS were going in to roost on Valmont Reservoir proper, seen from Legion Park. Good birding, Christian Nunes [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/christian_nunes/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
