Greetings All,
So, I headed out for a morning of birding at Jackson Reservoir today, only to find the area enshrouded in fog. The veil was not so thick as to prevent landbirding, so I started with that. No Megas, but a nice variety of nice birds, including: 2 Evening Grosbeaks 6 Mountain Chickadees (look out KS, here they come) 3 WW Juncos 3 WT Sparrows 1 Swamp Sparrow 2 kinda late Chipping Sparrows 1 kinda late Brown Thrasher By 10 am, shorebirding was possible, so I headed out onto the flats from the "outlet channel." As always, I wonder what I missed. What I didn't miss was gulls, as there were very few around. No scoters, jaegers, loons or that type of thing either. However, I did have 12 species of shorebirds, which for 22 Oct is pretty fun. Totals: 9 BB Plover 38 American Golden-Plovers (yes, 38, counted 4 times, and not a Pacific GP among em) 266 Killdeer 11 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Western Sandpipers 58 Least Sandpipers 3 Baird's Sandpipers 5 Pectoral Sandpipers 1 Stilt Sandpiper 48 LB Dowitchers 2 RN Phalaropes and a Wilson's Snipe in a marshy spot. The question is, have these Am GPs just been building up over the last month, or has there been some coming and going. 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
