I'm doing a solo follow up to Joey's great weekend in SE Colorado--driving down this afternoon to LaJunta. As Joey mentioned Lake Holbrook is presenting A+ shorebird opportunities right now. I had 16 shorebird species for the afternoon (including Willet and Wilson's Phalarope seen Lake Henry but not Holbrook--and oh yes, there were still several hundred phalaropes at the Meredith feedlots, Ted). Interestingly I only saw Snowy Plovers at Holbrook, none at Cheraw. Also a pair of Black-bellied Plovers, and a pair of Long-billed Curlews, a Sanderling, a few Stilt Sandpipers and a Pectoral Sandpiper at Holbrook. If it had not been blowing 30 MPH (I'm 2 for 2 in that regard at Holbrook this year) I would have had an opportunity to sort out more of the peeps. Holbrook and Cheraw combined for about 250 ibis--non identified as other than White-faces, but see the wind comment.
After dinner I went out to Adobe Creek--mystical with coastal surf pounding the lake shore in the wind--and then Bent's Old Fort at dusk and in relative calm. I got out of my car at 8:40 and was back in it at 8:45 having heard un-prompted Black and Virginia's Rails. Tomorrow on to the extreme Baca and Prowers migrant traps! Bill Kaempfer Boulder -- 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.
