Hi All, Joel and I had a great day of plains birding with visiting North Carolina young birders Matt Daw and Ali Iyoob today. We managed to avoid the rain for most of the morning, but it finally caught up with us around 6 PM. Jackson Lake SP in Morgan County was especially productive, with BROWN THRASHERS, a CHIMNEY SWIFT, ORANGE-CROWNED and WILSON'S WARBLERS, and a couple of ORCHARD ORIOLES. The highlight though was an adult male *BLACKPOLL WARBLER* in the Russian-olive groves just east of the boat ramp parking lot. Murphy's Pasture (CR 96) in Weld was also pretty good, with a total of 26 MCCOWN'S LONGSPURS and 330 LARK BUNTINGS. In total, we counted 1360 plus Lark Buntings in our cross-county wanderings. In the Beebe Draw area, we also had a single WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER on WCR 42 between WCR 45 and WCR 47. Also an interesting find was a single-species flock of 127 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES in a puddle on east side WCR 47, just south of WCR 40. This wass by far the largest flock of this species that I have ever seen, especially given that most of the Red-necked Phalaropes I've seen in Colorado are just in 1s or 2s or 3s mixed in with larger Wilson's Phalarope flocks.
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