Greetings All,
Sorry for lumping all of this together, but it is 1 am, and I'll be getting up in 5 short hours. Christian Nunes and I spent a fun weekend birding together, joined today by Nick Moore. Saturday, 5 November, we started in Lyons and did a circuit up to Tinmath Res, down to LUNA Res, and back around to Boulder Res. Highlights included PINYON JAYS, n. of the west end of Apple Valley Road, near the Larimer County border TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, 1 in Lyons along Old St Vrain Rd LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 4 (3 adults and a 2nd year) at Tinmath Res THAYER'S GULL, 1 adult, at Tinmath Res ROSS'S GOOSE, 1 imm at Tinmath Res GREATER SCAUP, 1 male at LUNA Res We also had large numbers of Lesser Canada Geese (parvipes) and smaller numbers of Cackling Geese seemingly freshly arrived, and a couple Lapland Longspurs around Tinmath. Today, in lovely crisp sunny fall weather, our highlights were: Prewitt Res: 3 COMMON LOONS 1 THAYER'S GULL 1 RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and also of note, 115 White Pelicans, 9 Greater Yellowlegs, and 3 Ferruginous Hawks At Sand Draw SWA, s. of Julesburg: 1 BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE 1 GRAY CATBIRD 2 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS 1 BROWN CREEPER 3 HARRIS'S SPARROWS and >100 juncos, with estimated numbers at 98 Slate-coloreds, 49 Pink-sideds, 15 Oregons, 4 Cassiar's, and 3 White-wingeds. Perhaps of some interest would also be 2 Townsend's Solitaires and a Pine Siskin At Jumbo Reservoir: 6 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS (all female/immature types, all in Sedgwick) 1 late CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR and a large collection of waterfowl on the county line, approximately, including estimated 2000 Snow Geese 250 Ross's Geese 140 Cackling Geese 2300 Redhead 1700 Lesser Scaup 800 Gadwall 800 N Shoveler 800 Mallards Other birds of some interest included several dozen White Pelicans, a couple mildly late/easterly Cal Gulls, 9 Red-breasted Mergs, and a Clark's x Western Grebe among several hundred Westerns and a few Clark's. Finally, at Red Lion SWA 1 COMMON LOON 1 HARRIS'S SPARROW American Tree Sparrows were seemingly everywhere, and WC Sparrows were not. Lapland Longspurs, in ones and twos were heard numerous times throughout the day, and a RL Hawk was over the interstate near Ovid. Good Birding Steven Mlodinow 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 [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.
