After grousing about the paucity of birds at Lake Estes for the last two weeks, yesterday turned out to be a banner day in terms of both numbers and the number of species. I don't know if I have ever seen more birds around the lake. The best birds were probably a Grasshopper Sparrow and a Wood Duck. The highlights were 140 White-faced Ibis (no Glossy but a couple may have had bands), over 200 Franklin Gulls, 6 Avocets, 200 Vesper Sparrows, 60 Wilson's Snipe (they were everywhere), 3 Willets, 4 Least Sandpipers, a Western Sandpipers, a Baird's Sandpiper, FOY Spotted Sandpipers, a Marsh Wren, 8 Yellow-headed Blackbirds, FOY Green-tailed Towhee, and FOY Brewer's Sparrow. Susan Ward and I totaled at least 66 species.
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