Greetings All,
This morning, at about 7 am, Rachel Hopper and I had a BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Crow Valley Campground. It apparently had roosted there, and departed quickly. Crow Valley had little else of interest, but Joey Kellner and friends had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at Norma's Grove first thing in the morning. The whole lot of us then debunked for BYO Playa (as described by Joe Roller). We did actually see 6 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS (but could not relocate the BB Plover), and Rachel thought she saw even more golden-plovers, but birds are hard to keep track of at this spot.The pond is quite large, and much vegetation approaches its shore, allowing birds to disappear and re-appear. The only thing I have to add to Joe's list of shorebirds was one Solitary Sand. Whilst the group was focusing on the plovers, I took a wee bit of time to look at the swarms of longspurs, pipits, and larks about the place. Including a wee bit of the drive in, Rachel and i estimated 300 American Pipits, 250 or so Horned Larks, 240 McCown's Longspurs, and 40 or more CC Longspurs. The longspur counts may quite well be underestimates. Rachel and I then went to Timnath Reservoir where numbers of birds are down dramatically. No Lesser BB Gull, No Sabine's Gull. The back side had a scad of Killdeer, but nothing resembling a Black-bellied or golden-plover (or even a Semi Plover!). Good Birding Steven Mlodinow -- 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.
