Folks, I started this morning at a very birdy Cherry Creek state park. The trees at the Smoky Hills picnic area were filled with birds, mostly warblers. There were 25+ Townsend's Warblers and about that many Yellow-rumped, half or so as many Wilson's and 1 Orange-crowned Warbler. Last week I saw several Red-breasted Nuthatches a Mountain Chickadee and 2 Nashville Warblers in these trees. The lake held gulls and grebes and 6 Red-necked Phalaropes. Along the south shore I saw a Swainson's Thrush (unusual for Cherry Creek) and 2 cooperative Sabine's Gulls. I met up with Loch at Chatfield and we found the Snowy Plover on the Plum Creek Delta along with a Semipalmated Plover and a Pectoral Sandpiper. Landbirds at Chatfield were few and far between but there was a male Red-naped Sapsucker near the cove at the SE shore. Pics of some of these birds can be viewed from the links below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lochkilpatrick http://www.pbase.com/gwalbek/2012_birds Glenn Walbek Castle Rock, 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
