Hello, Birders. Andrew and I stopped by various Boulder County reservoirs yesterday, Saturday, October 11th. Here's what we found: Panama Reservoir. 10 Northern Pintails, 15 Lesser Scaup, 15 Ruddy Ducks, 40 Sandhill Cranes, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 20 Baird's Sandpipers, 139 Long-billed Dowitchers, 40 Franklin's Gulls, 1 Swamp Sparrow. Lagerman Reservoir. 12 Ruddy Ducks, 14 Eared Grebes, 1 Black-bellied Plover, 1 Forster's Tern, 1 American Pipit. Jim Hamm Reservoir. 6 Lesser Scaup, 2 Snow Geese, 1 Great Egret.
McIntosh Lake. 12 Common Mergansers, 10 Ruddy Ducks, 4 Great Egrets, 28 Long-billed Dowitchers, 1 American Pipit. Boulder Reservoir. 2 Northern Pintails, 4 Lesser Scaup, 25 Ruddy Ducks, 70 Eared Grebes, 1 Horned Grebe, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 14 Baird's Sandpipers, 1 Sabine's Gull, 5 Franklin's Gulls, 1 Say's Phoebe, 34 Mountain Bluebirds, 21 American Pipits, 2 Audubon's Warblers. Six Mile Reservoir. 2 Baird's Sandpipers. Valmont Reservoir. 9 American Avocets. Baseline Reservoir. 2 Buffleheads, 1 Common Merganser, 12 Ruddy Ducks, 15 Eared Grebes, 1 Bald Eagle, 1 Ferruginous Hawk. Lafayette Water Treatment Plant. 2 American Pipits. Little Gaynor Lake. 28 Lesser Scaup, 1 Bufflehead. Two thoughts: 1. I think birding "phenomena" are so cool. Give me a phenomenon to a rarity, any day. As Walter Szeliga noted, this past weekend's phenomenon seems to have been Long-billed Dowitchers and Baird's Sandpiper. I would add Black-bellied Plover to that list, with reports from Park County, Jefferson County, Boulder County (2 sites), Larimer County (14 birds at 1 site), Arapahoe County, Weld County (3 birds at 1 site), and probably others I've lost track of. 2. Short-billed Dowitchers. I am emphatically *not* dissing any of the recent reports!! But I'm also saying it's interesting that we're getting this species as late as the 2nd weekend of October. Short-billed Dowitchers are very early fall migrants, with most adults moving through mid-continent July-August and juveniles August-September. So these October reports, presumably all juveniles, are noteworthy. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd [email protected] Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding ------------------------------- Please support the American Birding Association: Click on http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=884482 to search the internet. Check out the American Birding Association on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22934255714 Check out the American Birding Association on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abaoutreach Please visit the website of the American Birding Association: http://www.aba.org _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
