Greetings All,
Today, Tracy and I spent all day at Prewitt Res (well, from 7 to 4). Why? Not sure, as the landbirding was sllllllooooowwwww. However, at the end of the day, we had a 5 or so minute look at a juv BB CUCKOO about 20 feet from us. The bird was in the cottonwoods and willows surrounding one of the ponds just west of the road near the reservoir and a couple hundred yards south (directions approximate) of the parking area near the "caretaker's house." These ponds are private property, though not posted, and I've not had a problem visiting them. However, duck blinds have been freshly installed, so visiting them probably should be avoided for the remainder of fall migration, alas. Below the dam, we had a BG Gnatcatcher, a darkish looking bird that called like a western race bird. Along the inlet, we had a Hammond's Fly and 3 Townsend's Warblers. However: We had only 3 other flycatchers, all of which were WW Pewees (not even a kingbird!) We found but 3 Yellow Warblers and 7 Wilson's Warblers, so yes, a slow day for passerines overall Shorebird numbers were not in the famous range of Prewitt in past, but we did have good diversity (17 species) 177 Killdeer 1 Semi Plover 22 American Avocet 1 Spotted Sandpiper 11 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Solitary Sanpipers (1 cinnomomea, 1 nominate, 2 not ID'd to race) 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Sanderling 3 Semi Sands 1 Western Sand 20 Least Sand (including an adult) 81 Baird's Sand (including an adult) 2 Pec Sands 57 Stilt Sands 1 SB DOWITCHER (juv, ID'd by sight and call) 13 Wilson's Snipe 2 Wilson's Phalarope Other waterbirds of perhaps some interest was a Common Tern, 3 Herring Gulls (all adults), 12 WF Ibis, and 28 Black Terns Good Birding, Steven Mlodinow and Tracy Clark Longmont, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
