Ted, your post yesterday and today remind me of Babe Ruth's called shot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth's_called_shot Your home run today damaged several seats, in consecutive rows.Congrats! Tom Wilberding
On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:29:00 PM UTC-6, Ted Floyd wrote: > > Hello, Birders. > > > Boulder Reservoir, Boulder County, was predictably very, very birdy this > snowy morning, May 1st. > > > The very first bird I laid eyes on, upon turning into the west entrance, > was a Sage Thrasher running across the road. Then I saw a bunch of American > Robins fly by, and then a Western Willet, and then an Eastern > Bluebird...and, well, things were fast-paced like that for the whole rest > of the morning. > > > There was a great presence of McCown's Longspurs along the main loop road; > at least 13, all apparently alternate males, and most or all of them quite > vocal, were right along the road near the model airplane field. > > > Sparrows were everywhere along the road edges. I came up with: 1 Spotted > Towhee, 33 Chipping Sparrows, 1 Brewer's Sparrow, 60 Vesper Sparrows, 3 > Lark Sparrows, 11 Savannah Sparrows, 1 Grasshopper Sparrow, 1 Song Sparrow, > 4 Mountain White-crowned Sparrows, 2 Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows, 1 > Slate-colored Junco, 2 Oregon Juncos, 1 Pink-sided Junco, and 1 Gray-headed > Junco. > > > So were American Pipits, about 75 of them, everywhere. And a few Mountain > Bluebirds (12). Oh, and American Robins in tremendous abundance (at least > 325), and a Townsend's Solitaire. > > > Shorebirds. The main action was on the north shore, where I saw 15 Marbled > Godwits, 2 Long-billed Curlews, 28 Western Willets, 4 beautiful and vocal > alternate Long-billed Dowitchers, and Peter Burke. Other shorebirds > scattered around the lake shore were Killdeer, Greater and Lesser > yellowlegs, a peep, a Wilson's Snipe, and Wilson's Phalaropes. At one point > I was looking straight on at something that resembled, but wasn't, a > thick-banded plover (Wilson's? Common Ringed?), but it was just another > ho-hum McCown's Longspur. > > > Ibi. A big flock on the north shore had one straightforward Glossy Ibis; > when I left, it and Peter B. were off to the right of the main flock just a > little ways. > > > Franklin's Gulls and swallows. They were legion. > > > Warblers. A few Audubon's along the lake shore, and 2 Orange-crowns along > roadsides. > > > The one that got away. I very briefly saw, at quite close range, a nice > dull-pumpkin-orange sparrow-like job with faint black marks on the head and > a few thin white bars on the brownish wings. But then I was very literally > in danger of being steamrolled (there was a work crew out there), and had > to get out of the way, and that, as they say, was that. Was it a female > Smith's Longspur? Dunno, as I saw it through the windshield for just a few > seconds. > > Could someone go look for it, please? Pretty please? Last seen in the > general vicinity of the McCown's, at the model airplane field. > > > Ted Floyd > > [email protected] <javascript:> > > Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado > > > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cobirds/-/UoH5giWwZ8QJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
