Folks- my Dad Jim & I had an excellent outing to Chatfield today. We began S. of the park, enjoying the good-sized Long-billed Curlew flock (31 at my best count) previously posted from yesterday and today. A Peregrine Falcon added variety to the show there, as did the big spring cattle roundup taking place on the ranch hosting the curlews.
In the state park, we enjoyed the extremely vociferous Eastern Phoebe singing from treetops in the vicinity of its bridge over Plum Creek. At the bridge itself were two brown ducks- a female Mallard and a male Mexican Mallard intergrade. While it looked mostly OK for Mexican Mallard it had a distinct curlicue on the tail, like the intergrade shown in the Sibley Guide. A few pics of the interesting duck can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9047968@N02/8666215315/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/9047968@N02/8666215335/in/photostream/ I also have a movie of 25 or so of the Long-billed Curlews here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9047968@N02/8667325990/in/photostream/ Enjoy- Bill Schmoker, Longmont ______________________ • Bill Schmoker • ______________________ http://schmoker.org http://brdpics.blogspot.com [email protected] 720/201-5749 ______________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
