COBirders, Sorry for the tardy post, I did not last long after getting home last night. Yesterday, Brad Steger, Lisa Edwards and I did some birding in Custer, Fremont and Bent/Kiowa counties. Custer was surprisingly slow, Lake DeWeese has some decent shore but very few shorebirds. ~20 BAIRD'S, ~10 LEAST and a single STILT SANDPIPER along with KILLDEER were working the southwest end of the reservoir. Below the dam there were lots of birds but nothing of note that we could find. A quick run through Fremont on our way out to look for the Reddish Egret produced a few things. Along highway 119 in Florence we saw the same things SeEtta reported but we also had a single CATTLE EGRET in with some cattle. We stopped to give the Least Bittern a try and other than Brad and Lisa hearing something that might have been it, we were unable to relocate any of the birds. Next we headed for Blue Lake in Bent/Kiowa counties.
As we were scanning around Blue Lake, we had a group of sandpipers come in over the top of us that looked and sounded suspiciously like BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERs. A total of eight Buffies eventually landed about 50 yards from us and gave us great looks for over an hour. Although I basically had no cell signal, I was lucky enough to get one that lasted just long enough to call Duane Nelson who came out to join us and enjoy the sandpipers. We also had an adult and juvenile LEAST TERN. Duane mentioned that it is getting very late for them. The other nice thing there was the group of at least 103 LONG-BILLED CURLEWs. We were unable to relocate the Egret but with the activity on and around the lake we were not all that surprised. The bird could easily still be there. Then as we left and were heading somewhat back towards home we heard about the Canada Warbler at Last Chance so we detoured in hopes of making it before dark. We arrived with just enough "good" light to check out the area and we were rewarded with the CANADA WARBLER. I don't think we had anything different than what was reported by Steve. So even though our day started out fairly slow, I think we ended up with ~133 species and a number of real nice birds. ----- Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- 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.
