COBirders,
Maybe only of interest to county listers, I went to Big Johnson Res following Mark Peterson's great sighting of a juvenile Purple Martin. After a little over an hour of looking for and at swallows I was finally able to find the martin flying with a large mixed species (mostly Barnies) flock. The swallows, maybe a little over 100 birds in widely dispersed groups, will disappear for minutes at a time and then reappear just below the dam outlet, out over open water, perched on the rocks that create the dam (only seen from upper parking lot and from the Open Space trail), perched on utility wires below the dam, out over the fields at Fountain Valley School, and also on a tallish dirt cutbank visible only from the unofficial lower parking lot. More success might come with more than one person searching and a scope is recommended. A Sanderling was below the lower parking lot with a flock of Baird's Sandpipers and a Red-necked Phalarope was in close to shore in addition to expected species. Bill Maynard 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.
