COBirds, Day off and decided to explore Larimer Co north of Ft Collins this afternoon exploring various small lakes and open land. Main goal being the 3 Tundra Swans Leatherman reported yesterday, which I did not manage to find - not surprising given they departed during his observation and there are a ton of water bodies around. Not a ton of birds around but was nice to explore. Decent numbers of waterfowl, very low raptor and passerine numbers. One group of ~30 Sandhill Cranes along the n shore of N Poudre Reservoir #6. One Common Loon on Douglas Reservoir. Personal highlight of the day was a pair of Lapland Longspurs flushed from near the road within Soapstone Prairie - rattled and 'tew'ed and looked good for LALO in flight.
Canada Goose - several flocks about ducks - decent amount, few dozen dabblers and divers scattered at small lakes n of town, mostly large dabblers (gad/mall/wig) and some diving ducks (bufflehead, scaup/ringneck, 1 redhead), and a few com. merg types (no scope today)) Gadwall - surely a couple/few dozen at least am wigeon - 2+, prob more mallard - few dozen redhead - at least 1 rndu/scaup - small #s <100 total bufflehead - 2-3 dozen scattered com. merganser - 5+ probable distant birds on small lake Common Loon - 1-2 FOS W Grebe - 5 Great Blue Heron - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Am Kestrel - 5 Sandhill Crane - 30 (very few raptors, no apparent coots, pelicans, cormorants or killdeer, few gulls) rock pigeon - 5 collared-dove - 5 raven sp - 2 at soapstone prairie horned lark - 2 soapstone prairie am robin - couple dozen starling song sparrow - 1 in weeds e side of Douglas Reservoir lapland longspur - 2 Good birding, Derek Hill Fort Collins -- 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/msgid/cobirds/fc3f51d9-1ece-43c0-a1a3-fcfb2620d559%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
