I led a "Nunn Guy" birding trip to Weld County for my fellow U. S. Forest Service/Rocky Mountain Research Station employees.
Route: Nunn->Raptor Alley (WCR 27)->Weld Landfill->Drake Lake- >Windsor Reservoir->Timnath Reservoir->Siebring Reservoir->35th Ave Gravel->Glenmere Park->Latham Reservoir->Beebe Draw->Loloff Reservoir- >WCR 59 marsh->Lonetree Water Treatment Facility->Antelope Reservoir. Total of species: 80+ (we had to leave some peeps and ducks alone- distance/heatwaves) Highlights: Unidentified (and the only one present) Warbler (WCR 42/45 trees and shrubbery on NE) - 1, looked like female Pine Warbler (Sibley's) and the chip even sounded like the "sucking" noise chip (http:// www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/sounds). Ideas? I can tell you what it wasn't Yellow, Wilson's, 1st W Tennessee, Orange-crowned, etc) Semipalmated Plover (Timnath) - 2 Ruddy Duck (WCR 59) - 5-6 Stilt Sandpiper (Latham) - 4-6+ Black Tern (Windsor Lake, Windsor Reservoir) - 4-6 Forster's Tern (Latham, Windsor Lake) - 6-8 Sora (Latham) - 1 Western Sandpiper (Latham, Timnath) Baird's Sandpiper (Latham, Timnath) Least Sandpiper (Latham, TImnath) Burrowing Owl (Nunn) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Nunn) - 1 Mountain Bluebird (Nunn) - 1 Vesper, Lark, Brewer's Sparrow (Nunn) Blue Grosbeak (Raptor Alley) - 1 Cattle Egret (Glenmere, Latham) - 3 dozen Solitary Sandpiper (Timnath) - 2 White-faced Ibis (Timnath, Latham) - 50+ Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs (Latham, Timnath) Great Egret (Timnath) - 2 Franklin's Gull - 3-4 dozen (Latham, Timnath) Bonaparte's Gull (Timnath) - 2 Long-billed Dowitcher - 12+ (Latham, Timnath) Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn/CO http://ColoradoBirder.ning.com/ -- The "Nunn Guy" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
