Colorado Birders, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory will be accepting counts of Barrow's Goldeneyes again this year from 20 November through 30 November (includes this weekend and next - sorry for not much notice). This will be the twelfth year of the count. This is not a statistically rigorous endeavor, but it should provide insight into whether or not Barrow's Goldeneye populations are taking a rapid and severe crash. We would like to concentrate on counting all of the Barrow's Goldeneyes in Colorado, however, we would appreciate a full species list with counts for each for the waterbodies that are counted. Also, if participants could enter their count totals into the eBird web site that would be much appreciated. I will check eBird for all BAGOs reported during this time period for those of you that don't post on CoBirds or WSBN. Please let me know if you would like me to e-mail datasheets to you (datasheets are not required to participate).
Here are the lakes that have had the bulk of Barrow's Goldeneyes on past counts and will hopefully be visited the next two weekends: Bear Creek Reservoir – Jefferson County Blue Lake – Eagle County Blue Mesa Reservoir – Gunnison County Clear Creek Reservoir – Lake County Dillon Reservoir – Summit County Eleven Mile Reservoir – Park County Grand Lake – Grand County Horsetooth Reservoir – Larimer County Ice Lake – Chaffee County Jerry Creek Reservoir – Mesa County Lake Avery – Rio Blanco County Lake Granby – Grand County Mount Elbert Forebay – Lake North Pond Park - Summit Ranch at the Roaring Fork Ponds – Garfield Rifle Falls Fish Hatchery – Garfield County Rifle Gap Reservoir – Garfield County Shadow Mountain Reservoir – Grand County Silverthorne Sewage Ponds – Summit County Spring Park Reservoir - Eagle County Stagecoach Reservoir - Routt County Steamboat Lake – Routt County Taylor Park Reservoir – Gunnison County Union Reservoir – Weld Vega Reservoir – Mesa County Yampa River (near Craig) – Moffat County Here are the totals for each year of the count: 1999 – 226 at 8 sites 2000 – 107 at 16 sites (less effort) 2001 – 181 at 20 sites 2002 – 189 at 16 sites 2003 – 245 at 21 sites 2004 – 226 at 14 sites 2005 – 219 at 16 sites 2006 – 280 at 21 sites 2007 – 225 at 17 sites 2008 - 183 at 19 sites 2009 - 163 at 16 sites Thank you, Jason Beason Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory ([email protected] or reply to this e-mail address) -- 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
