Hello, Birders. A few more sightings to add to all the Boulder County stuff already reported for today, Sunday, May 6th:
Walden Ponds. James Fitzsimons and I visited this afternoon. The birding seemed slow but steady the whole time we were there, with numerous misses, but also with 60+ species for the afternoon. Highlights were a calling and singing male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK at the west end and a singing EASTERN WARBLING-VIREO at the place described earlier by Paula Hansley (and note that an audio-recorded Eastern Warbling-Vireo was on territory at that spot in 2011). We also had a strange, indeterminate warbling-vireo sp. that we audio-recorded; will be interesting to study the sound spectrograms, but that will have to wait. Cottonwood Marsh actually had shorebirds, including SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE, and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. A few other odds and ends: 2 WOOD DUCKS, 3 lingering RING-NECKED DUCKS, 1 EASTERN KINGBIRD, 1 AMERICAN DIPPER, 18 CHEDDAR WAXWINGS, 1 GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE, 2 BULLOCK'S ORIOLES, and not a lot of warblers. Earlier in the day: Golden Ponds. Amazingly devoid of passerine migrants, but the new pond on the south side of the St. Vrain River had 2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. Also a CHIMNEY SWIFT. Little Gaynor Lake. 1 LEAST SANDPIPER. Also 1 BREWER'S SPARROW in the parking area. Panama Reservoir. 2 WOOD DUCKS and 2 loud WILLETS. (Wow. I just realized something. My BoCo shorebird species list for the day was comfortably in the double digits.) Prince Lake No. 2. 1 RING-NECKED PHEASANT, 2 WHITE-FACED IBISES, and 1 LEAST SANDPIPER. Bear Creek (buggy tangles just east of Williams Village, CU campus). 1 tail-twitching (but not tail-dipping) DUSKY FLYCATCHER and 1 -orestera- ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Finally: Kei, Hannah, Andrew, and I saw and heard one of the glorious INDIAN PEAFOWL that hang around the intersection of 75th/76th and Baseline Road; and James Fitzsimons and I of course went back later in the day and reconfirmed. Ted Floyd [email protected] Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- 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.
